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diff --git a/doc/source/index.rst b/doc/source/index.rst index d4dabb1..a7757d6 100644 --- a/doc/source/index.rst +++ b/doc/source/index.rst @@ -2391,21 +2391,26 @@ Unicode, Dammit has one special feature that Beautiful Soup doesn't use. You can use it to convert Microsoft smart quotes to HTML or XML entities:: - markup = b"<p>I just \x93love\x94 Microsoft Word</p>" + markup = b"<p>I just \x93love\x94 Microsoft Word\x92s smart quotes</p>" UnicodeDammit(markup, ["windows-1252"], smart_quotes_to="html").unicode_markup - # u'<p>I just “love” Microsoft Word</p>' + # u'<p>I just “love” Microsoft Word’s smart quotes</p>' UnicodeDammit(markup, ["windows-1252"], smart_quotes_to="xml").unicode_markup - # u'<p>I just “love” Microsoft Word</p>' + # u'<p>I just “love” Microsoft Word’s smart quotes</p>' -You might find this feature useful, but Beautiful Soup doesn't use -it. Beautiful Soup prefers the default behavior, which is to convert -Microsoft smart quotes to Unicode characters along with everything -else:: +You can also convert Microsoft smart quotes to ASCII quotes:: + + UnicodeDammit(markup, ["windows-1252"], smart_quotes_to="ascii").unicode_markup + # u'<p>I just "love" Microsoft Word\'s smart quotes</p>' + +Hopefully you'll find this feature useful, but Beautiful Soup doesn't +use it. Beautiful Soup prefers the default behavior, which is to +convert Microsoft smart quotes to Unicode characters along with +everything else:: UnicodeDammit(markup, ["windows-1252"]).unicode_markup - # u'<p>I just \u201clove\u201d Microsoft Word</p>' + # u'<p>I just \u201clove\u201d Microsoft Word\u2019s smart quotes</p>' Parsing only part of a document =============================== |