7stud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Feb 18, 4:53 am, 7stud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Feb 18, 3:20 am, William Heymann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > How do I decode a string back to useful unicode that has xml >> > numeric cha > racter >> > references in it? >> >> > Things like 占 #which is: &_#21344_; (without the >> > underscores) >> >> BeautifulSoup can handle two of the three formats for html entities. >> For instance, an 'o' with umlaut can be represented in three >> different ways: >> >> &_ouml_; >> ö >> ö >> > > lol. It's hard to even make posts about this stuff because html > entities get converted by the forum software. Here are the three > different formats for an 'o with umlaut' with some underscores added > to keep the forum software from rendering the characters: > > &_ouml_; > &_#246_; > &_#xf6_;
FWIW, your original post was fine, it was just the quoted text in your followup that was wrong. I guess that is yet another reason to use a real newsreader or the mailing list rather than Google Groups. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
