not quite 1252

[Richard Brodie]

"Anton Vredegoor" <anton.vredegoor at gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:4451f9e9$1 at usenet.zapto.org...

> Yes my header also says UTF-8. However some kind person send me an e-mail stating that 
> since I am getting \x94 and such output when using repr (even if str is giving correct 
> output) there could be some problem with the XML-file not being completely UTF-8. Or is 
> there some other reason I'm getting these \x94 codes?

Well that rather depends on what you are doing. If you take utf-8, decode
it to Unicode, then re-encode it as cp1252 you'll possibly get \x94. OTOH,
if you see '\x94' in a Unicode string, something is wrong somewhere.