UnicodeError: ASCII decoding error: ordinal not in range(128)

[Hrvoje Nezic]

I get this error whan I try to use characters above 128.
(I am using Python 2.2 on Windows 2000).

Python FAQ suggests the following to change
the default encoding:

import sys
sys.setdefaultencoding(encoding)

However, the module sys (at least at my machine) doesn't have
setdefaultencoding function.

Is there some other way to fix that?

Regards,
Hrvoje Nezic