Degree symbol (UTF-8 > ASCII)

[Dennis Reinhardt]

> I'm working with a xml document which doesn't include an encoding,

The lack of an encoding is your problem.  Pick an encoding which defines 256
characters, not 128, if you want to represent chr(176).in a single byte.

> I would like to insert the degree symbol (chr(176)), but
> because this is outside the bounds (chr(128) is the limit), Python
> raises an XML error.

UTF-8 has no chr(128) limit.  Your document is UTF-8 encoded (because you
have not specified an encoding) and you need to meet UTF-8 encoding until
you explicitly specify some other encoding.  More likely is that chr(176)
and perhaps what follows are not legal UTF-8.
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Dennis Reinhardt

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