> If I read in the latin1 file using > codecs.open(filename,encoding='latin1') and write out the utf8 file by > opening with > codecs.open(othername,encoding='utf8'), would I no longer have a > problem -- I could just read in latin1 and write out utf8 with no more > worries about encoding? > > thanks,
Replying to my own post, I feel so lonely! I guess that silence means I *am* thinking correctly about the encoding/decoding stuff; I'll keep heading in this direction unless someone out there sees it differently..... --Tim -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list