On Fri, May 26, 2006 at 09:22:41PM +0100, Bryan Lawrence wrote: > > Does elementtree and/or expat need to know the encoding to get this right? > (which may be a problem coz this could be from anyone's document in any > encoding ...) >
I think you will have to tell elementtree what encoding your XML is
in. Otherwise how would it know? I am sure there is a better way,
but I have seen people try to guess encodings like:
# untested and from my bad memory :-)
encodings = ['utf-8', 'utf-16',i 'iso-8859-1',]
for encoding in encodings:
try:
unicode(s, encoding)
except UnicodeError:
pass
else:
break
The encodings list would be a list of common encodings that you may
expect. Again there must be a better way to do this... I would
suggest that you try to set a standard for encodings.
David Stanek
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