Andrea Griffini wrote: > John Machin wrote: > > > The fact that C3 and C2 are both present, plus the fact that one > > non-ASCII byte has morphoploded into 4 bytes indicate a double whammy. > > Indeed... > > >>> x = u"fødselsdag" > >>> x.encode('utf-8').decode('iso-8859-1').encode('utf-8') > 'f\xc3\x83\xc2\xb8dselsdag' >
Indeed yourself. Have you ever considered reading posts in chronological order, or reading all posts in a thread? It might help you avoid writing posts with non-zero information content. Cheers, John -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list