Thanks for your quick reply. I'm probably confused. I'll give that a try.
On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 7:38 AM, Tim Golden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Pramod Vaidyanathan wrote: > >> The problem comes down to this. I have an email that I have received in >> Microsoft Outlook that contains characters outside of the ascii set. I was >> able to use your library to traverse through my outlook folders and select >> the appropriate emails etc. There are characters in the email that are >> ascii, extended ascii, and other. The problem I am having is when I read >> the "item.Body" into body, the characters "\xe2\x85\x9b", "\xe2\x85\x9c", >> "\xe2\x85\x9d", "\xe2\x85\x9d" become unknown characters (question marks). >> These characters have unicode equivalents of u215b, u215c, u215d, and >> u215e. They are the fractions 1/8, 3/8, 5/8, 7/8 respectively. >> > > I'm not sure whether you're confused or I am. > Just to clarify: the Body attribute of an Outlook > MailItem is returned to Python as a unicode object. > > In my case (having sent myself an email containing the > characters you mention) it looks like this: > > u'\u215b\u215c\u215d\u215e' > > Exactly how these chars will be output will depend on your > console, locale settings etc. If you want to replace > those as decimals, you can simply do this, eg: > > body = message.Body.replace (u"\u215b", u"0.125") > > You don't need to encode it to anything unless > you have some other reason to do that. > > TJG > _______________________________________________ > python-win32 mailing list > python-win32@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32 >
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