[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Unless someone has any other ideas I'm > giving up now.
Frederick also suggested http://chardet.feedparser.org/ that is port of Mozilla's character detection algorithm to pure python. It works pretty good for web pages, since I haven't seen garbled russian text for years of using Mozilla/Firefox. You should definitely try it. -- Serge -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list