Fredrik Lundh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ET has already decoded the CP1252 data for you. If you want UTF-8, all > you need to do is to encode it: > > >>> u'Bob\x92s Breakfast'.encode('utf8') > 'Bob\xc2\x92s Breakfast' > I think he is claiming that the encoding information in the file is incorrect and therefore it has been decoded incorrectly.
I would think it more likely that he wants to end up with u'Bob\u2019s Breakfast' rather than u'Bob\x92s Breakfast' although u'Dog\u2019s dinner' seems a probable consequence. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list