[BioPython] BLAST XML problem? (missing encoding)

[Iddo Friedberg]

They seem to have fixed the encoding.. we currently have a production 
level system which seems to work fine with this.

Iddo


Peter wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> As discussed earlier, we have a problem on some Blast XML output files
> where entities like a-umlaut appear in names e.g. "Alejandro Schäffer",
> without the XML file specifying an encoding:
>
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
>
> rather than say:
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
>
> Did anyone get in touch with the NCBI over this issue?  Any reply?
>
> Peter
>
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