> Many thanks, it works when setting the LANG environment variable. BTW: For Windows users, when running Python command-line programs, you can also modify the properties of the "cmd.exe" window and tell windows to use the TT Lucida Console font instead of the raster font.
Then, before starting the Python program, do a CHCP 1252 This way the sys.stdout.encoding will be cp1252 (tested with Python 2.4.3 and 2.5.1). -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
