hdante wrote: > > The character code in question (which is present in the page), 150, > doesn't exist in ISO-8859-1.
Are you sure? Consider (re-)reading all of the Wikipedia article. 150 aka \x96 doesn't exist in ISO 8859-1. ISO-8859-1 (two hyphens) is a superset of ISO 8859-1 (one hyphen) and adds the not-very-useful-AFAICT control codes \x80 to \x9F. > See > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC_8859-1 (the entry for 150 is > blank) You must have been looking at the table of the "lite" ISO 8859-1 (one hyphen). Reading further you will see \x96 described as SPA or "Start of Guarded Area". Then there is the ISO-8859-1 (two hyphens) table, including \x96. HTH, John -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
