wrote: > As an example I would like to do this kind of conversion: > \uc3B4 => ô > for all available html entities.
>>> u"\u3cB4".encode('ascii','xmlcharrefreplace') '㲴' Don't bother using named entities. If you encode your unicode as ascii replacing all non-ascii characters with the xml entity reference then your pages will display fine whatever encoding is specified in the HTTP headers. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list