Does anyone know a way to remove the 'FFFD' character with python? You can see the browser output I'm dealing with here: http://webcomm.webfactional.com/htdocs/fffd.JPG I deleted a big chunk out of the middle of that JPG to protect sensitive data.
I don't know what the character encoding of this data is and don't know what the 'FFFD' represents. I guess it is something that can't be represented in whatever this particular encoding is, or maybe it is something corrupt that can't be represented in any encoding. I just want to scrub it out. I tried this... clean = txt.encode('ascii','ignore') ...but the 'FFFD' still comes through. Other ideas? Thanks, Ryan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list