thomas wrote:
> I have a string variable containing some non-ascii characters (from
> a characterset which was previously called 'ansi' instead of 'oem'
> on windows).
short answer: "iso-8859-1" should work
:::
longer answer:
windows "ansi" is an alias for the encoding you get from
import locale
language, encoding = locale.getdefaultlocale()
for people in western europe/north america, that's usually
"cp1252", which is a microsoft version of latin-1:
http://www.microsoft.com/typography/unicode/1252.htm
(characters 0x80-0x9f isn't part of iso-8859-1, aka latin-1)
cheers /F
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