Jan Hudec writes: > Package: python2.3 > Version: 2.3.3-5 > > The default /etc/python2.3/site.py specifies "ascii" as a system > encoding. This causes errors if non-ascii characters are fed to > python programs unaware of i18n/l10n issues (eq. libglade-convert > script). Please make utf-8 (which is backwards compatible but will not > cause fatal errors) or enable locales in default site.py.
It reads as well: # Set the string encoding used by the Unicode implementation. The # default is 'ascii', but if you're willing to experiment, you can # change this. I don't think that's suiteable for a release. Anyway, it's a config file, so you can change it.