Okay, your telling me it was latin-1 was really useful. Following that I did some more googling, and
s1=s1=s1.decode('Latin-1').encode('utf-8')
finally does the trick.
Thanks
Peter
On Feb 2, 11:58 pm, Jonathan Lundell <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Feb 2, 2012, at 3:45 PM, peter wrote:
>
> > Thanks for the quick reply
> > s1=s1.decode('Latin-1')
>
> > does not help, is that what you had in mind?
>
> Try 'latin-1'
