[Zope-DB] Unicode - ISO 8859-1 conversion

[Andreas Jung]

--On 2. Juni 2006 12:08:09 +0200 Jonas Nielsen <jonasn at mail.tele.dk> wrote:

> I have a MySQL database with text in ISO 8859-1. However Plone displays
> strings in UTF-8.
>
> I am looking for a function to convert between ISO 8859-1 and unicode. (I
> am /not/ looking for a way to change how the strings are stored in MySQL
> or how to change the encoding of an entire html page).

Python unicode strings have an encode() Method. For converting to a unicode
string you want to use the unicode() method of Python...the Python doc is 
your friend.

-aj

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