why not in python 2.4.3

[Rocco]

This is the problem when I run the function
this is the result from 2.3.5
>>> print rss
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><feed version="0.3" xml:lang="it"
xmlns="http://purl.org/atom/ns#"><generator>NFE/1.0</generator><title>Google
News Italia</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html"
href="http://news.google.it/"/><tagline>Google News
Italia</tagline><author><name>Google
Inc.</name><email>news-feedback at google.com</email></author><copyright>&copy;2006
Google</copyright><modified>2006-05-28T19:09:13+00:00</modified>
<!-- A couple notes:
     * add an "output=atom" param to get Atom
     * section pages have a "topic=?" param;
       use "topic=h" for a Top Stories section.
--><entry><title>Benedetto XVI: Wojtyla santo subito - LibertÃ
</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html"
href="http://www.liberta.it/default.asp?IDG=605282024"/><id>tag:news.google.com,2005:cluster=41b535fb</id><summary>Prima
pagina</summary><issued>2006-05-28T11:05:00+00:00</issued><modified>2006-05-28T11:05:00+00:00</modified><content
type="text/html" mode="escaped"><br><table border=0 align=
cellpadding=5 cellspacing=0><tr><td width=80 align=center
valign=top><a .....

>>> import sys
>>> sys.getdefaultencoding()
'ascii'
>>>
this is the result with 2.4.3
>>> print rss
ﾋ
>>> rss
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>>> import sys
>>> sys.getdefaultencoding()
'latin_1'
>>>
No exception trace
Thanks again