Replace high-bit characters in file.

[Chris Liechti]

"Mikke M." <plopp at dummyaddress.doh> wrote in 
news:M1Kp8.3021$Ow4.4334 at news2.bredband.com:
> I need a script that replaces national characters in a (dBase)file.
> 
> The original file is encoded in Latin-1 but I need it to be in CP850
> instead.

you can do that with the unicode support:
>>> unicode("text to convert","latin-1").encode("cp850")

chris

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