Spanish Accents

[Chris Angelico]

On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 3:22 AM, Stan Iverson <iversonstan at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 11:30 AM, Rami Chowdhury <rami.chowdhury at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Could you try using the 'open' function from the 'codecs' module?
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> I believe this is what you meant:
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> file = codecs.open(p + "2.txt", "r", "utf-8")
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> but got this error:
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>  /usr/lib64/python2.4/codecs.py in next(self=<open file 'index2.txt', mode 'rb'>)

Your file almost certainly isn't UTF-16, so don't bother trying that.
I think you may have ISO-8859-1 encoding, also called Latin-1, but
it's not easy to be sure. Try:

file = codecs.open(p + "2.txt", "r", "iso-8859-1")

ChrisA