New submission from Hugo Silva <hugo...@gmail.com>:
Hi all,
I'm facing a huge encoding problem in Python when dealing with ISO-8859-1 /
Latin-1 character set.
When using os.listdir to get the contents of a folder I'm getting the strings
encoded in ISO-8859-1 (ex: ''Ol\xe1 Mundo''), however in the Python interpreter
the same string is encoded to a different charset:
In : 'Olá Mundo'.decode('latin-1')
Out: u'Ol\xa0 Mundo'
How can I force Python to decode the string to the same format. I've seen that
os.listdir is returning the strings correctly encoded but the interpreter is
not ('á' character corresponds to '\xe1' in ISO-8859-1, not to '\xa0'):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC_8859-1
This is happening
Any thoughts on how to overcome ?
Regards,
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components: Unicode
messages: 147552
nosy: Hugo.Silva, ezio.melotti
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Python ISO-8859-1 encoding problem
versions: Python 2.7
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