Encoding Questions

["Martin v. Löwis"]

Kent Johnson wrote:
> Something like
> data = urllib.url_open(...).read()
> unicodeData = data.decode('gb2312')
> utf8Data = unicodeData.encode('utf-8')
> 
> You may want to supply the errors parameter to decode() or encode(); see
> the docs for details.
> http://docs.python.org/lib/string-methods.html

In addition, for an HTML page, you might need to update the META element
for the content-type HTTP header. For an XHTML page, you might need to
update/remove the XML declaration.

Regards,
Martin