[lxml-dev] Encoding problems with lxml

[Stefan Behnel]

Bruno Barberi Gnecco wrote:
> a) when reading pages in iso-8859-1, accented characters are converted to HTML
> sequences, such as à for ` + a. I don't want this to happen, how to avoid it?

I only noticed now that this was referring to parsing. Any reason you don't
want entities resolved her?

lxml 2.0 will allow you to keep entities in the tree, although they are rarely
of any help.

Stefan