[XML-SIG] problems reading iso-8859-1 data

[Alexandre Fayolle]

On 30 Apr 2001, Don Allingham wrote:

> Yes, I have the encoding="iso-8859-1" set the file.  It sounds as if
> expat is converting the iso-8859-1 to UTF-8.  Is there a way to convert
> back to iso-8859-1?  Unfortunately, I'm stuck with 1.5.2.


Try this :

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from xml.unicode.utf8_iso import utf8_to_code, code_to_utf8
import cStringIO
def utf8_to_latin(s):
    buff = cStringIO.StringIO()
    while s:
        try:
            head,s = utf8_to_code(1,s)
        except Exception,e:
            from traceback import print_exc
            print_exc()
            head = ''
            s = s[1:]
        buff.write(head)
    ans = buff.getvalue()
    buff.close()
    return ans

def latin_to_utf8(s):
    buff = cStringIO.StringIO()
    for c in s:
        try:
            cv = code_to_utf8(1,c)
        except Exception,e:
            from traceback import print_exc
            print_exc()
            cv = ''
        buff.write(cv)
    ans = buff.getvalue()
    buff.close()
    return ans
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Alexandre Fayolle
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