Answer by Maksym Polshcha for Python 2.7 encoding and feedparser
Try to use feedparser package http://packages.python.org/feedparser/It deals with encodings well and supports almost all feeds formats. You will just get well-structured data.
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If you know that your text is UTF-8, you can decode it into unicode objects before you start working with them. As soon as you read the bytes from the file, you can decode them using the decode()...
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You're trying to compare encoded text to unicode. Python doesn't know the encoded text is UTF-8, so it guesses it's ASCII and tries to decode it to unicode for you. The solution is to decode it...
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So in short my case is this:Read data from RSS feedPrint content to the terminalAnd of course the content isn't in plain ascii, it's utf-8, so I get characters like "öäå". But when I print the text...
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