Hunter wrote: > I've narrowed the problem down to a simple test program. Check this out: > > --- > > # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- > > acceptable = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzóíñú" # this line will work > acceptable = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzóíñúá" # this line won't
[bad words stripped] this should read acceptable = u"abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzóíñú" acceptable = u"abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzóíñúá" Mind the little "u" before the string, which makes it a unicode string instead of an encoded byte string. http://docs.python.org/tut/node5.html#SECTION005130000000000000000 Stefan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list