string title() method does not work on Danish characters

[Michael Hudson]

"Jason Orendorff" <jason at jorendorff.com> writes:

> Max M wrote:
> > Thanks for the suggestion, but it does not solve my problem. I am 
> > pulling the data from an older MS SQL server that returns standard ascii.
> 
> If it contains characters >127, it's not standard ASCII.
> It's probably ISO-8859-1, aka Latin-1, aka Western Europe.
> 
> If you're getting this data back as 8-bit strings, then you need
> to convert them to unicode first:
> 
> ustr = s.decode('latin-1')

This is 2.2 only.  In 2.1 you should use

ustr = unicode(s, "latin-1")

> ustr = ustr.title()

Cheers,
M.

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