On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 3:39 PM, Greg <gregor.hochsch...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Brilliant! It worked. Thanks!
>
> Here is the final code for those who are struggling with similar
> problems:
>
> ## open and decode file
> # In this case, the encoding comes from the charset argument in a meta
> tag
> # e.g. <meta charset="iso-8859-2">
> fileContent = fileObj.decode("iso-8859-2")
> f.write(text.encode('utf-8'))In other words, when you decode correctly into Unicode and encode correctly onto the disk, it works! This is why encodings are so important :) ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
