On Feb 19, 2009, at 10:23 AM, Massimo Di Pierro wrote: > problem. Given > > >>> a=chr(245).decode('latin-1').encode('utf8','xmlcharref') > >>> print a > õ > > how do I translate this into valid escaped XML "&U+xxxx;" in the > general case? > This reference mentions something along those lines: <http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2005/06/15/py-xml.html> Does this help? Brian Ray