title: Python Error; UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u2026'
body: <p>I am trying to extract some data from a JSON file which contains tweets and write it to a csv. The file contains all kinds of characters, I'm guessing this is why i get this error message:</p>
  
  <p><code>UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u2026'</code></p>
  
  <p>I guess I have to convert the output to utf-8 before writing the csv file, but I have not been able to do that. I have found similar questions here on stackoverflow, but not I've not been able to adapt the solutions to my problem (I should add that I am not really familiar with python. I'm a social scientist, not a programmer)</p>
  
  <pre><code>import csv
  import json
  
  fieldnames = ['id', 'text']
  
  with open('MY_SOURCE_FILE', 'r') as f, open('MY_OUTPUT', 'a') as out:
  
      writer = csv.DictWriter(
                      out, fieldnames=fieldnames, delimiter=',', quoting=csv.QUOTE_ALL)
  
      for line in f:
          tweet = json.loads(line)
          user = tweet['user']
          output = {
              'text': tweet['text'],
              'id': tweet['id'],
          }
          writer.writerow(output)
  </code></pre>