Now that I know the problem, I found the following on Google. Windows uses codepages to display different character sets. (http:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_page)
The Windows chcp command allows you to change the character set from the original 437 set. When you type on the command line: chcp 65001 it sets your console in UTF-8 mode. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_page_65001) Unfortunately, it still doesn't do what I want. Instead of printing the error message above, it prints nothing. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
