Hi Martin. Many thanks for your reply. What I am reall after, the following accomplishes. > > If you are looking for "at the same time", perhaps this is also > interesting: > > py> unicode('\xbe', 'windows-1252').encode('utf-8') > '\xc2\xbe' >
Your answer really helped quite a bit to clarify this for me. I am using sqlite3 so it is very happy to have utf-8 encoded unicode. The examples you provided were the additional help I needed. Thank you. Regards, David -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list