[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Ultimately, I think the solution will be to .decode('utf-8') a string > twice
Try >>> "Altru\xc3\x83\xc2\xafsme".decode("utf8").encode("latin1").decode("utf8") u'Altru\xefsme' >>> print _ Altruïsme Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list