Ascii to Unicode.

Lawrence D'Oliveiro ldo at geek-central.gen.new_zealand
Fri Jul 30 08:51:30 EDT 2010


In message <mailman.1309.1280426398.1673.python-list at python.org>, Joe 
Goldthwaite wrote:

> Ascii.csv isn't really a latin-1 encoded file.  It's an ascii file with a
> few characters above the 128 range that are causing Postgresql Unicode
> errors.  Those characters work fine in the Windows world but they're not
> the correct byte representation for Unicode.

In other words, the encoding you want to decode from in this case is 
windows-1252.



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