FW: [Tutor] xml stuff

[Furmanek, Greg]

How do I change unicode to askii?

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-> From: Kalle Svensson [mailto:kalle@gnupung.net]
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-> Sez Furmanek, Greg:
-> > Ok I have used the expat stuff and I get some strange results:
-> > 
-> > Character data: [u'    ']
-> [snip]
-> > 
-> > when parsing some stuff I get these u characters.
-> > Is this normal. code follows:
-> 
-> Yes, I think so.  It means that the returned string is a 
-> unicode object.
-> That's got to do with character sets and stuff that I don't 
-> even want to
-> know about.  ISO-8859-1 was good enough for granddad! <wink>
-> 
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