[XML-SIG] unicode problems in elementtree

[David Stanek]

On Fri, May 26, 2006 at 09:22:41PM +0100, Bryan Lawrence wrote:
> 
> Does elementtree and/or expat need to know the encoding to get this right? 
> (which may be a problem coz this could be from anyone's document in any 
> encoding ...)
> 

I think you will have to tell elementtree what encoding your XML is
in. Otherwise how would it know? I am sure there is a better way,
but I have seen people try to guess encodings like:

  # untested and from my bad memory :-)
  encodings = ['utf-8', 'utf-16',i 'iso-8859-1',]
  for encoding in encodings:
      try:
          unicode(s, encoding)
      except UnicodeError:
          pass
      else:
          break

The encodings list would be a list of common encodings that you may
expect. Again there must be a better way to do this... I would
suggest that you try to set a standard for encodings.

David Stanek

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