Re: not quite 1252

Anton Vredegoor wrote:

I'm trying to import text from an open office document (save as .sxw and
read the data from content.xml inside the sxw-archive using
elementtree and such tools).

The encoding that gives me the least problems seems to be cp1252,
however it's not completely perfect because there are still characters
in it like \93 or \94. Has anyone handled this before?

this might help:

http://effbot.org/zone/unicode-gremlins.htm

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