[Grok-dev] Problem with character encoding

[Sebastian Ware]

I know this is slightly off topic but maybe there is a simple answer.

I have a unicode attribute [message] of an object stored in the ZODB  
and I want to encode it to "iso-8859-1" and the use urllib.urlencode  
to create parameters for a http post operation.

The problem is that the characters "åäöÅÄÖ" are encoded to this:

  '%E5%E4%F6%C5%C4%D6'

but should be encoded to this:

  '%C3%A5%C3%A4%C3%B6%C3%85%C3%84%C3%96'

I notice the following (the first one is what I want):

    >> u'å'.encode('iso-8859-1')
    '\xc3\xa5'
    >> self.context.message[0].encode('iso-8859-1')
    '\xe5'

Any hints?

Mvh Sebastian