[XML-SIG] XML Unicode and UTF-8

[n.youngman at ntlworld.com]

I'm trying to create an XML document, containing mostly ASCII, but potentially containing some unicode characters. I want to convert this all to UTF-8, but no matter what I try, I get an ASCII codec error.

I have tried using codec.open( filename, "w", "utf-8" )

I have tried converting the unicode inline with string.encode( "utf-8").

I have tried various combination of the above.

I have tried UTF-7

I always get an ASCII codec error.

My environment is Python 2.3.4 built on redHat 7.3

What's the correct approach to this problem? 

Has anyone done this successfully?


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