[XML-SIG] "encoding" argument to xml.dom.minidom.toxml()?

Stefan Behnel stefan_ml at behnel.de
Tue Jun 10 23:05:44 CEST 2008


Hi,

Bill Janssen wrote:
>> Well, what did you expect? That it magically transmogrifies your non-ASCII
>> data into plain ASCII data?
> 
> Yep.  And there's no reason I can see why it can't do exactly that.  I
> think the "encoding" argument should either be removed, or made to
> work.

That's why I asked if you tried other encodings. Obviously, you only tried
"UTF-8" and "ASCII". There's tons of other encodings out there, and I bet they
work just fine - as does "ASCII" (for ASCII data, that is).

Stefan


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