Suspected Unicode problem when reading text from Excell

[Oleg Broytmann]

On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 02:35:05PM +0000, Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk wrote:
> Thu, 06 Sep 2001 08:54:22 GMT, Ian Parker <parker at gol.com> pisze:
> > You simply need to set your default encoding to "Latin-1", so that you
> > can handle the full range of 8-bit characters.
> 
> This is a great evidence that the default encoding should be the one
> specified in the locale, not ASCII.

   FAQ 4.102:
   http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw.py?req=show&file=faq04.102.htp

Oleg.
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