On Apr 18, 8:36 am, John Machin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hdante wrote: > > > The character code in question (which is present in the page), 150, > > doesn't exist in ISO-8859-1. > > Are you sure? Consider (re-)reading all of the Wikipedia article. > > 150 aka \x96 doesn't exist in ISO 8859-1. ISO-8859-1 (two hyphens) is a > superset of ISO 8859-1 (one hyphen) and adds the not-very-useful-AFAICT > control codes \x80 to \x9F. > > > See > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC_8859-1(the entry for 150 is > > blank) > > You must have been looking at the table of the "lite" ISO 8859-1 (one > hyphen). Reading further you will see \x96 described as SPA or "Start of > Guarded Area". Then there is the ISO-8859-1 (two hyphens) table, > including \x96. > > HTH, > John
Sorry, that's right, I should have been referring to the second table. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
