Euro sign issue when reading an RTF file with Python

Question

I need to generate a document in RTF using Python and pyRTF, everything is ok: I have no problem with accented letters, it accepts even the euro sign without errors, but instead

Answer 1

The good news is that you're not doing anything wrong. The bad news is that the RTF is being read as ISO 8859-1 regardless.

>>> print u'€'.encode('iso-8859-15').decode('iso-8859-1')
¤

You'll need to use a Unicode escape if you want it to be read properly.

>>> print hex(ord(u'€'))
0x20ac