"Fredrik Lundh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> I'm obviously missing some context here, but "encoding ± to %B1 on any > platform" is exactly what urlencode does: > > >>> import urllib > >>> urllib.urlencode([("key", chr(0xb1))]) > 'key=%B1' Yeah but you're cheating by using the platform independent chr(0xb1) instead of a literal '±' in an unspecified encoding.
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