Pyexpat and iso-8859-1

[C.Laurence Gonsalves]

On Tue, 13 Jun 2000 07:32:07 -0500, Marc Jeurissen <mjeuris at lib.ua.ac.be> wrote:
> When I parse a XML-file containing the declaration '<?xml version="1.0"
> encoding="iso-8859-1"?>' with Pyexpat, every iso-latin1 character is
> being replaced by 2 new characters, the first of wich is nearly always
> #195 (Ã), the second one has a decimal value of 64 less than the
> original character value.
> 
> Some examples:
> 
> #233 (é) becomes #195 + #169 (©)
> #231 (ç) becomes #195 + #167 (§)
> #239 (ï) becomes #195 + #175 (¯)
> 
> Anyone knows what to do about this?

I don't know what to do about it, but it looks like the characters are
getting UTF8 encoded. I have no experience with UTF8 in Python, but a
bit of searching on www.python.org turned up this:

    http://w1.132.telia.com/~u13208596/unicode.htm

HTH...

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