"Anton Vredegoor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Yes my header also says UTF-8. However some kind person send me an e-mail > stating that > since I am getting \x94 and such output when using repr (even if str is > giving correct > output) there could be some problem with the XML-file not being completely > UTF-8. Or is > there some other reason I'm getting these \x94 codes? Well that rather depends on what you are doing. If you take utf-8, decode it to Unicode, then re-encode it as cp1252 you'll possibly get \x94. OTOH, if you see '\x94' in a Unicode string, something is wrong somewhere. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list