Dale Strickland-Clark enlightened us with: > So it encodes the entity reference to ⬠(Euro sign).  I need it to > remain as € so that the resulting HTML can render properly in > a browser.
If you want proper display, why not use UTF-8? Sybren -- The problem with the world is stupidity. Not saying there should be a capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself? Frank Zappa -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list