[XML-SIG] problems reading iso-8859-1 data

[Fred L. Drake, Jr.]

Don Allingham writes:
 > I have an XML file with iso-8859-1 encoding. The sax parser (expat)=20=

 > seems to translating charaters above 128 to to separate characters.=20=

 > For example "=E9" in the xml file is being interpreted as "=C3=A9" b=
y the=20
 > parser. (I'm running python 1.5.2 with PyXML 0.6.5)
 >=20
 > Am I missing something obvious?

  I'm not sure how obvious it is, but what you are missing is that the
expat output under Python 1.5.2 will always be UTF-8 encoded.  (Under
more recent versions of Python, Unicode strings are provided by
default, but UTF-8 can be requested if desired.)


  -Fred

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