Unicode, COM, Word Problem

[Kirby James]

Fredrik and Matt,

Thanks for both your suggestions. Following your pointers I found examples
of Unicode conversion at
http://www.reportlab.com/i18n/python_unicode_tutorial.html
My own problem was 'solved' by using a statement of the form :
    sAscii = sText.encode('ascii', 'replace')
however I appreciate Matt's comments about how to do this 'properly'

Thanks, Kirby