encode/decode misunderstanding

[Tim Arnold]

> If I read in the latin1 file using
> codecs.open(filename,encoding='latin1') and write out the utf8 file by 
> opening with
> codecs.open(othername,encoding='utf8'), would I no longer have a 
> problem --  I could just read in latin1 and write out utf8 with no more 
> worries about encoding?
>
> thanks,

Replying to my own post, I feel so lonely! I guess that silence means I *am* 
thinking correctly about the encoding/decoding stuff; I'll keep heading in 
this direction unless someone out there sees it differently.....

--Tim