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[Francois Granger]

I am participating in the translation of Python docs to french. I 
works on Mac (at home). Since this doc is to be delivered in 
iso-8859-1, grabbing from other scripts, I came with a simple script 
wich translate my Mac charset to 8859.

def macTo88591(s):
     t=""
     for c in s:
         if entitydefs.has_key(c):
             t=t + entitydefs[c]
         else:
             t=t+c
     return t
 
The entitydefs is a hacked version of """HTML character entity 
references.""" with Mac char replacing html entities as keys.

On the professional side, I receive html files translated to french. 
They are coded in html entity. I need to translate them to UTF-8. I 
currently use Tidy to do this, but I need to do some manual 
modifications after it.

I looked throught the new features of Python 2 but I did not found an 
easy way to do something similar to what I did with this 8859 
modification.

Any idea or bigginning of solution ?
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