[Pythonmac-SIG] charset conversions

[tmk [microscript]]

Yo,

I'm looking into doing character set conversions in Python (e.g. from
MacRoman to ISO-8859-1).

I was wondering if it already exists some stuff in this area. I've tried
looking in the current library of python modules but I was unable to find
something of interest.

Is Python biased towards ISO-8859-1, although apparently MacPython defaults
to interpreting text as MacRoman?

Indeed I'm willing to code the simple stuff I need but before I dig into it
I thought I'd ask in the list first in case there already is a standardized
way to do it (There's One Way To Do It (tm)).

:-)

TIA

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