I am using Mac Python 2.4.1 on Mac OS X 10.4 and I cannot seem to be able to read from a latin-1 file and then write to a UTF8 file correctly
Using Textwrangler on OS X, I create a latin-1 file with some special characters in it and save it as " test.txt"
I am reading the textfile as such:
f = codecs.open('test.txt', 'r', 'latin-1')
content = f.read()
f.close()
type(content)
<type 'unicode'>
all good. I can even
print content.encode('utf8')
äöåäöäööåäöäöå
(having set sys.defaultencoding to 'utf8' in siteconfig.py).
Now I want to create a new utf8 file and write "content" into it. I do the following:
f=codecs.open('newtest.txt','w','utf-8')
f.write(content)
f.close()
my problem is, that when I open "newtest.txt" in Textwrangler again, Textwrangler recognizes the file as "MacRoman" encoded and the content is garbled.
The same thing happens if I try to write content to a "latin-1" file again
whats happening?
thanks for any insight you might have
-frank
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