7stud wrote: > python 3.1 won't let me > explicitly encode my unicode string
Sure it does. But encoding a non-ASCII string to ASCII will necessarily fail. > and python 3.1 implicitly does > the encoding with the wrong codec. That's not a Python problem, though. Your terminal is configured for US-ASCII, so you can't output anything but US-ASCII characters. Change your terminal setup to e.g. UTF-8 and see how things start working. Stefan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
