[Cialug] OT - Python Question

[Stuart Thiessen]

Thanks! This is still helpful! :)

Stuart

On Aug 13, 2009, at 09:30 , Matthew Nuzum wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 9:17 AM, Stuart Thiessen<thiessenstuart at aol.com 
> > wrote:
>> Worked on it last night and finally figured out a solution. Your
>> comment plus several comments from others focused on the encoding
>> issue, so I did a hex dump of the export file and found out what the
>> codes were and then used a replace (data.replace('\u____', u'\x__')  
>> to
>> switch for the equivalent in the lower ASCII set. That did the trick
>> to avoid any of the strange symbols. For some strange reason, RTF was
>> not reading the Unicode curly quotes, etc. So, it was just simpler to
>> replace them all with normal quotes, etc.
>>
>
> Well, now that it's too late, I found this which is probably just what
> you needed. I'm pretty sure your problem was cp1252 related. There are
> a few other chars that you run into that cause probs though the smart
> quotes are the most common offenders.
>
> http://effbot.org/zone/unicode-gremlins.htm
>
>
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