[BangPypers] Internationalization in Python 2.6

[Vivek Puri]

Hi,

>
> Actually in the earlier part when we write to xml we got <c9> which was
> correct when we look into the ISO-8859-1 (Latin-1) international
> character set and hexadecimal.
> But here we got the hexa <c4> instead. Again for another character which
> can not be decoded using utf-8 it is giving the same value Ä which is
> interesting :)
>
I ran some test but I always got correct answer no matter how many times
I encode/decode but we may be trying different things.

Also consider Vijay's response of chardet library.

>
> Apart from encoding what we have to take care in python coding to
> support internationalization, any document can be suggested for that.
>
Internationalization is much more than encoding but python doc for i18n
will get you started. Take a look at : 
http://docs.python.org/2/library/i18n.html

rgds
vivek