Niclas schrieb:
> Hi
>
> I'm having trouble to work with the special charcters in swedish (Å Ä Ö
> å ä ö). The script is parsing and extracting information from a webpage.
> This works fine and I get all the data correctly. The information is
> then added to a rss file (using xml.dom.minidom.Document() to create the
> file), this is where it goes wrong. Letters like Å ä ö get messed up and
> the rss file does not validate. How can I convert the data to UTF-8
> without loosing the special letters?
Show us code, and example text (albeit I know it is difficult to get
that right using news/mail)
The basic idea is this:
scrapped_byte_string = scrap_the_website()
output = scrappend_byte_string.decode('website-encoding').encode('utf-8')
Diez
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