[Rpm-metadata] updates

[Joe Shaw]

On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 11:40, Daniel Veillard wrote: 
>   Hum, seems that libxml2 error message got inserted at the beginning
> of the XML result:

Yeah, even removing that, though, I get this:

[joe at bacon joe]$ xmllint fedora-core-test2-metadata.xml
fedora-core-test2-metadata.xml:10061: error: Input is not proper UTF-8,
indicate encoding !

And it shows the registered mark and trademark lines (for some reason
Evo won't paste them).

Anyway, they're the Latin-1 trademark symbols, not the UTF-8 ones. 
(ASCII is a subset of UTF-8, but Latin 1 isn't)

In python (>= 2.1 anyway) you can encode string as UTF-8 by doing:

string = "blah blah ®" (some latin 1 encoded string)
utf8_string = string.encode('utf-8')

and then write that out to the disk.

Joe