ElementTree and Unicode

[Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch]

In <1154532671.351968.142890 at b28g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>, Sébastien
Boisgérault wrote:

> I am trying to embed an *arbitrary* (unicode) strings inside
> an XML document. Of course I'd like to be able to reconstruct
> it later from the xml document ... If the naive way to do it does
> not work, can anyone suggest a way to do it ?

Encode it in UTF-8 and then Base64.  AFAIK the only reliable way to put an
arbitrary string into XML and get exactly the same string back again.

Ciao,
	Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch