On 12 Dec 2013, at 4:16 PM, peter <peterchutchin...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a word document that I output as a .'.mht; file ie, a 'single file
> web page'.
>
> I can put sections of this into a string field in a database and then display
> the field through a view, and the formatting in the word document is
> preserved.
>
> here is a line from the file that I read into web2py and insert into a field
> in a database.
>
> <p class=3DStyle7
> style=3D'line-height:11.5pt;mso-line-height-rule:exactly'><span lang=3DEN-US
> style=3D'font-family:"Adobe Garamond","serif";mso-bidi-font-family: "Adobe
> Garamond"'>‘One Lettuce Does Not a Salad Make’ is similar to Jones’ story
> .......
>
>
> Everything works fine except the apostrophes in the text disappear.
>
> When I display the field on the screen, there are no apostrophes. I f I 'view
> source', it is as above, but without the apostrophe's before One, after Make
> and after Jones.
>
> Clearly this is an encoding problem. If I read the .mht file into textpad,
> the apostrophe's appear, and textpad says the file is 'ANSI'. The question is
> how do I read the file in such as way as to correctly encode the apostrophes?
>
> I have tried various encodings including 'locale.getpreferredencoding()'.
>
>
> Does anyone know how to solve this problem
>
Your email headers suggest that the string (at least in the email) is encoded
as windows-1252.
So if s is your encoded string, you might try
s.decode('cp1252').encode('utf8'). Assuming that UTF-8 is OK for output.
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