character encoding conversion

["Martin v. Löwis"]

Christian Ergh wrote:
> - it works with the characters i mentioned

It does.

> - what encoding do you have in the end

US-ASCII

> - and how exactly are you doing all this? All with somestring.decode() 
> or... Can you please give an example for these 7 steps?

I could, but I don't have the time - just try to come up with some
code, and I try to comment on it.

Regards,
Martin