[Jackil]

Hi guys. I got some problems with parsing a xml file while running a script on both linux and windows. Should I save the file as utf-8 on both platforms?

[BigDaddy]

Jackil, what is the encoding of the xml file? what is giving you the option of saving as another encoding
And yes utf-8 should be OK as long as you read it back in as utf-8, and the xml parser accepts that

[Jackil]

BigDaddy, hmm.. the encoding is specified as utf-8, but the file is fetched from a webserver though.

[BigDaddy]

How are you fetching it?

[Jackil]

I use urllib.urlopen

[BigDaddy]

The result is a string, right?

[Jackil]

Well, a filehandle
Which I then have created a small xml parser for

[BigDaddy]

When reading it in, you might want to get it into unicode with stringjustread.decode('utf-8')

[Jackil]

Hmm.. interesting.

[BigDaddy]

To answer the original question, whatever worked on windows should work on linux, except that the system default encoding for 8-bit strings might be "windows-1252" and not "ascii"