I am impressed at how helpful you have been on this Jonathon.
It does say in the mht file that it is windows-1252 encoded.
It turns out that
s.decode('cp1252').encode('utf-8')
is working correctly. I mistakenly thought it was not
because I got this error
UnicodeEncodeError: 'charmap' codec can't encode character u'\u2018' in
position
193: character maps to <undefined>
This was from a print statement. It turns out you get this error when
trying to print the left single quotation mark that is correcty coded in
unicode. So this is why I was having such problems. This error is
presumably because the print statement is working in dos mode, this
character is not in the dos character set. So using print to check out what
is going on in python is not a good idea when using unicode.
Obvious with hindsight, not so obvious without hindsight.
Thanks again Jonathon for all your support on this.
Peter
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