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

[Martin v. Loewis]

> > Yes, I have the encoding="iso-8859-1" set the file.  It sounds as if
> > expat is converting the iso-8859-1 to UTF-8.  Is there a way to convert
> > back to iso-8859-1?  Unfortunately, I'm stuck with 1.5.2.
> 
> 
> Try this :
> 
> ---------------------------8<---------------------------------
> from xml.unicode.utf8_iso import utf8_to_code, code_to_utf8
> import cStringIO

Or, shorter yet:

from xml.unicode.iso8859 import wstring
def utf8_to_latin1(s):
  wstring.decode("utf-8",s).encode("iso-8859-1")

def latin1_to_utf8(s):
  wstring.decode("iso-8859-1",s).encode("utf-8")

Regards,
Martin