UTF8 & HTMLParser

Klaus Alexander Seistrup klaus at seistrup.dk
Fri Dec 1 00:03:28 EST 2006


Jan Danielsson wrote:

>    However, I would like to convert the "text" (which is utf8) 
> to latin-1. How do I do that?

How about:

	latin = unicode(text, 'utf-8').encode('iso-8859-1')

Please see help(u''.encode) for details about error handling.  You 
might also want to trap errors in a try-except statement.

Cheers,

-- 
Klaus Alexander Seistrup
http://klaus.seistrup.dk/



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