Fredrik Lundh wrote:
> 3) convert the data to Unicode before passing it to the database
> interface, and leave it to the interface to convert it to whatever
> encoding your database uses:
>
> data = ... get encoded string from email ...
> text = data.decode("iso-8859-1")
> ... write
I currently have a Python program that reads in emails from a POP3
server. As soon as the message is read in it is fed directly into a
PostgreSQL database for storage. Later, it is broken down into it's
parts and displayed to the user.
My problem is that when I try to pass "\tsome text\xa7some m