> The encoding _is_ irrelevant, in the very moment you get unicode strings.
We shall have to disagree about this. My use case is perfectly reasonable, imo. > If you write out xml again, use whatever encoding suits you best. What suits me best is what the *user* specified, and that got put in the first xml line. I'm going to have to parse this line myself. Edward -------------------------------------------------------------------- Edward K. Ream email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Leo: http://webpages.charter.net/edreamleo/front.html -------------------------------------------------------------------- -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list