In article <mailman.3538.1345442498.4697.python-l...@python.org>, Michael Torrie <torr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Python generally tries to follow unicode > encoding rules to the letter. Thus if a piece of text cannot be > represented in the character set of the terminal, then Python will > properly err out. Other languages you have tried, likely fudge it > somehow. And if you want the "fudge it somehow" behavior (which is often very useful!), there's always http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Unidecode/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list