[Tutor] rss feed reader, but having trouble with unicode

[Tom]

Yeah I was considering using that. Thanks for the tip.

On 28/02/2008, Michael Langford <mlangford.cs03 at gtalumni.org> wrote:
> 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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