- it works with the characters i mentioned
It does.
- what encoding do you have in the end
US-ASCII
- and how exactly are you doing all this? All with somestring.decode() or... Can you please give an example for these 7 steps?
I could, but I don't have the time - just try to come up with some code, and I try to comment on it.
Regards, Martin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list