please encode the string as unicode object: text = u"...", plus the first multibyte character doesn't look like an utf-8 character.
** Changed in: python-defaults (Ubuntu) Status: Unconfirmed => Needs Info -- str.encode() dosn't work as expected https://launchpad.net/bugs/61036 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs