Re: iso8859 -> utf8 -> base64 code?

[Michael Ströder <michael@stroeder.com>]

Christian Nygaard wrote:
> Hi can somebody please post working iso8859 -> utf8 -> base64
> Perl/Python conversion code?

Assuming Python 2.0 or newer:

# Import base64 module
import base64

# raw string with ISO-8859-1 chars
s='Michael Str\xf6der'

# Create Unicode object from s with known charset/encoding
u=unicode(s,'iso-8859-1')

# Copy UTF-8 encoding to raw string
s_utf8=u.encode('utf-8')

# base64-encode the raw string into new raw string b
b=base64.encodestring(s_utf8)

Ciao, Michael.