Get document as normal text and not as binary data

[Markus Franz]

Kent Johnson wrote:

> My guess is the html is utf-8 encoded - your sample looks like 
> utf-8-interpreted-as-latin-1. Try
> contents = f.read().decode('utf-8')

YES! That helped!

I used the following:

...
contents = f.read().decode('utf-8')
contents = contents.encode('iso-8859-15')
...

That was the perfect solution for my problem! Thanks a lot!

Best regards

Markus