> If the file is declared as latin-1 and contains an euro symbol, then the > file is actually invalid since euro is not defined of in iso-8859-1. If > there is no encoding declaration, as Diez already said, the file should > be encoded as utf-8. >
You are right of course - latin1 doesn't contain the euro-symbol. ISO-8859-15 it is. Dumb me. Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list