Thanks for all the replies. I just got in to work so I haven't tried any of them yet. I see that I wasn't as clear as I should have been so I'll clarify a little. I'm grabbing some data from msn's rss feed. Here's an example. http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=domain+name&format=rss&FORM=ZZRE
The string ' all domain name extensions » Good' is where I have a problem. The ' »' shows up as '  »' when I write it to a file or stick it in mysql. I did a hex dump and this is what I see. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/scripts> cat test.txt extensions » Good [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/scripts> xxd test.txt 0000000: 6578 7465 6e73 696f 6e73 20c2 a020 c2a0 extensions .. .. 0000010: 20c2 bb20 476f 6f64 0a .. Good One thing that jumps out is that two of the Â's are c2a0, but one of them is c2bb. Well, those are the details since I wasn't clear before. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
