Python and UTF-8

[Martin v. Loewis]

Brandvik <tmagna at online.no> writes:

> Is it possible to make a python script that would change the character
> to UTF-8 no matter what the encoding of the input is? I have heard
> that Python has some great functions for Unicode formatting so this
> might be an easy and trivial task, but I'm new to Python so I really
> don't know...

You have to know the encoding the data is currently, say
current_encoding. Then, converting it into UTF-8, you write

data = unicode(data, current_encoding).encode('utf-8')

HTH,
Martin