From: Wes Gamble <weyus@...>
Date: 2006-05-25T05:22:52+09:00
Subject: How does one transform UTF-8 encoded characters to ASCII?

I'm a little embarrassed about asking this, but here goes...

I am using HTMLEntities.decode_entities on a string of HTML.

I don't understand how to make my text, which now contains UTF-8 
characters, display correctly in say, Notepad.  All of the entities are 
preceded by the character A-circumflex.  My guess is that Notepad 
doesn't know how to handle UTF-8, for example.

Do I need to unpack the string with 'U' and then repack the result with 
'A'?

Thanks,
Wes

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