Re: Unicode to HTML entities

[Clodoaldo]

On May 30, 4:25 am, Duncan Booth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Clodoaldo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On May 29, 12:57 pm, "Richard Brodie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> "Clodoaldo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>
> >>news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> >> >I was looking for a function to transform a unicode string into
> >> >htmlentities.
> >> >>> u'São Paulo'.encode('ascii', 'xmlcharrefreplace')
>
> >> 'S&#227;o Paulo'
>
> > That was a fast answer. I would never find that myself.
>
> You might actually want:
>
> >>> cgi.escape(u'São Paulo & Espírito Santo').encode('ascii', 
> >>> 'xmlcharrefreplace')
>
> 'S&#227;o Paulo &amp; Esp&#237;rito Santo'
>
> as you have to be sure to escape any ampersands in your unicode
> string before doing the encode.

I will do it. Thanks.

Regards, Clodoaldo.

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