minidom and åäö once again :-P

[Magnus Heino]

Martin v. Löwis wrote:

> Magnus Heino <magnus.heino at pleon.sigma.se> writes:
> 
>> >>> d.toxml()
>> '<?xml version="1.0" ?>\n<test>\xe5\xe4\xf6</test>'
> 
> This is not what I'm getting. I get
> 
> ...
>     writer.write(data)
>   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.2/StringIO.py", line 139, in write
>     s = str(s)
> UnicodeError: ASCII encoding error: ordinal not in range(128)
> 
> Apparently, you've changed the system default encoding, so that the
> conversion from Unicode strings to byte strings silently converted the
> Unicode string.

Well, I got confused by this;

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

But I have removed that now.
 
> In any case, your best bet is to use an explicitly-encoding stream:
> 
>>>> s=StringIO.StringIO()
>>>> d.writexml(codecs.getwriter('utf-8')(s))
>>>> s.getvalue()
> '<?xml version="1.0" ?>\n<test>e\xc3\xa4\xc3\xb6</test>'

Ah.... there we go! Thank you for fast and accurate answers!

Now I finally understand whats going on, and why :-)

Maybe someone with commit access could add some short example like this one 
to the python documentation for minidom?

-- 

  /Magnus