Duncan Booth schrieb:
> 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.
If that's the case, he should read the file as string, de- and encode it
(probably into a StringIO) and then feed it to the parser.
Diez
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