Write a script that inputs a line of encrypted text and a distance value and out

Question

Write a script that inputs a line of encrypted text and a distance value and outputs plaintext using a Caesar cipher. The script should work for any printable characters. my code data = input("Enter text for encryption: ") dist = int(input("Enter the value for Distance: ")) datum = "" for cha in data: val = ord(cha) cipher_val = (val + dist) if cipher_val > ord('z'): cipher_val = ord('a') + dist datum = datum + chr(cipher_val) print('Encrypted Text: ') print(datum) there is an error saying (UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character 'Å' in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)). I need help converting a Unicode string into the ASCII encoding

Explanation / Answer

data = raw_input(" Enter text for encryption: ")

dist = int(raw_input(" Enter the value for Distance: "))

datum = ""

for cha in data:

        val = ord(cha)

        cipher_val = val + dist

        if cipher_val > ord('z'):

            cipher_val = ord('a') + dist -

            (ord('z') - val + 1)

        datum = datum + chr(cipher_val)

print(' Encrypted Text: ')

print(datum)

OUTPUT

Enter text for encryption: sample

Enter the value for Distance: 10

Encrypted Text:

ckwzvo

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