Leif B. Kristensen skrev: >Is there something else I have to do?
Please forgive me for talking with myself here :-) I should have looked up Unicode in "Learning Python" before I asked. This seems to work: >>> u'før'.upper() u'F\xd8R' >>> u'FØR' u'F\xd8R' >>> 'FØR' 'F\xd8R' So far, so good. Note that the Unicode representation of the uppercase version is identical to the default. But when I try the builtin function unicode(), weird things happen: >>> s='FØR' >>> s 'F\xd8R' >>> unicode(s) Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode bytes in position 1-2: invalid data The ActivePython 2.3.2 doesn't even seem to understand the 'u' prefix. So even if I can get this to work on my own Linux machine, it hardly looks like a portable solution. Seems like the "solution" is to keep away from letters above ASCII-127, like we've done since the dawn of computing ... -- Leif Biberg Kristensen http://solumslekt.org/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
