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Asked: 2026-06-14T02:26:54+00:00

I’m using BeautifulSoup to scrape a Swedish web page. On the web page, the

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I’m using BeautifulSoup to scrape a Swedish web page. On the web page, the information I want to extract looks like this:

"Öhman Företagsobligationsfond"

When I print the information from the Python script it looks like this:

"Öhman Företagsobligationsfond"

I’m new to Python and I have searched for answers and tried using # -- coding: utf-8 -- in the beginning of the code but it does not work.

I’m thinking of moving from Sweden to solve this issue.

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  1. Editorial Team

    When using # -- coding: utf-8 -- you only specify the encoding of the source code document. The page that you are parsing has probably declared a faulty encoding (or none at all), and therefore Beautiful Soup fails. Try to specify the encoding when building the soup. Here’s a small example:

    markup = '''
<html>
    <head>
        <title>Övriga fakta</title>
        <meta charset="latin-1" />
    </head>
    <body>
        <h1>Öhman Företagsobligationsfond</h1>
        <p>Detta är en svensk sida.</p>
    </body>
</html>
'''

soup = BeautifulSoup(markup)
print soup.find('h1')

try:
    # Version 4
    soup = BeautifulSoup(markup, from_encoding='utf-8')
except TypeError:
    # Version 3
    soup = BeautifulSoup(markup, fromEncoding='utf-8')

print soup.find('h1')

    The output from this is:

    <h1>Ãhman Företagsobligationsfond</h1>
<h1>Öhman Företagsobligationsfond</h1>

    In Beautiful Soup 4, the parameter is from_encoding, while in version 3, the parameter is fromEncoding.

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