UnicodeEncodeError: 'charmap' codec can't encode character character maps to <undefined>

Question

I have a problem with writing to file in unicode. I am using python 2.7.3. It gives me such an error:

UnicodeEncodeError: 'charmap' codec can't encode character u'\u2019' in position 1006: character maps to <undefined>

Here is a sample of my code: error is on line: f3.write(text)

f = codecs.open("PopupMessages.strings", encoding='utf-16')
text = f.read()
print text
f.close()

f3 = codecs.open("3.txt", encoding='utf-16', mode='w')
f3.write(text)
f3.close()

I tried to use 'utf-8' and 'utf-8-sig' also, but it doesn't helped me. I have such symbols in my source file to read: ['\",;?*&$#@%] and symbols in different languages. How can I solve this issue? Please help, I read info on stackoverflow firstly, but it didn't helped me.

Answer 1

delete this line:

print text

and it should work