Encoding - unicode

[Robert Deskoski]

Hi there,

Currently I have a file with germanic names which are, unfortunately in this
format:
B\xf6genschutz
As well as being mixed with those who actually have the correct character's
in them.
What I am trying to do is convert the characters in the above format to the
correct
format in a text file. The below 5 lines of code work fine, so it changes
the static
line of text correctly, but when it reads lines in from the file, and i
strip the endline off,
it doesn't conver the character's properly. It just keeps them as they are
when printed
and outputted to the screen.

outfile = open("Output.py", 'w')
ingermanfile = open("GermanNames.txt", 'r')

line = "B\xf6genschutz"
print line.decode("iso-8859-1")
raw_input("Yeah")

   while 1:
      line = ingermanfile.readline()
      if not(line):
         break

      try:
          print line
          templine = line[:-1]
          temp = templine.decode("iso-8859-1")
          print "'" + templine + "'"
          outfile.write(templine + "\n")
      except:
          raw_input("Here we are!")
          outfile.write(line)
          pass
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