Problem reading file with umlauts

[Stefan Behnel]

Claus Hausberger wrote:
> Hello
> 
> I have a text file with is encoding in Latin1 (ISO-8859-1). I can't change that as I do not create those files myself.
> 
> I have to read those files and convert the umlauts like ö to stuff like &oumol; as the text files should become html files.
> 
> I have this code:
> 
> 
> #!/usr/bin/python
> # -*- coding: latin1 -*-
> 
> import codecs
> 
> f = codecs.open('abc.txt', encoding='latin1')
> 
> for line in f:
>     print line
>     for c in line: 
>         if c == "ö":

You are reading Unicode strings, so you have to compare it to a unicode
string as in

	if c == u"ö":

>             print "oe"
>         else:
>             print c

Note that printing non-ASCII characters may not always work, depending on
your terminal.

Stefan