Anton Vredegoor wrote: > The encoding that gives me the least problems seems to be cp1252, > however it's not completely perfect because there are still characters > in it like \93 or \94. Has anyone handled this before? I'd rather not > reinvent the wheel and start translating strings 'by hand'.
Not sure I understand the question. If you process data in cp1252, then \x94 and \x94 are legal characters, and the Python codec should support them just fine. Regards, Martin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list