Strange problems with encoding

[Rudy Schockaert]

>>P.S. I really need some weeks off so I can read all the available
>>documentation ;-)
> 
> 
> it shouldn't take you more than 15-20 minutes to learn enough
> about Unicode to be able to write Python code that processes
> non-ASCII text in a reliable and portable way:
> 
> short version:
>     http://effbot.org/zone/unicode-objects.htm
> 
> long version:
>     http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html
> 
> </F>

I wasn't referring to Unicode ;-) but to the existance of site.py .
There still is so much I have to learn about python that I will need 
those weeks badly. I only got halfway in Alex' Python in a Nutshell 
(splendid book btw) which I already have since Europython :-(