[Tutor] rss feed reader, but having trouble with unicode
Michael Langford
mlangford.cs03 at gtalumni.org
Thu Feb 28 16:07:00 CET 2008
feedparser.org also works really well for this sort of thing. Does a
lot of the unicode automagically for you.
--michael
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 8:58 AM, Tom <tavspamnofwd at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Finally got it working. I used your suggestion Rui, but I also had to
> change the charset encoding that my database was using. Changed from
> Latin-1 to UCS2.
>
> I read http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html too.
> Essential reading.
>
> Thanks.
>
>
>
> On 26/02/2008, rui <ruivaldo at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello Tom,
> >
> > Try doing this:
> >
> > xml = unicode(xml, encoding, "ignore")
> > elem = ElementTree.fromstring(xml.encode("utf8"))
> >
> >
> > > #do stuff with elem...
> > >
> > > feed.xml = xml
> > > feed.save()
> > >
> > >
> > > Thanks for your time :-)
> >
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