Unicode problem

[Rehceb Rotkiv]

On Sat, 07 Apr 2007 12:46:49 -0700, Gabriel Genellina wrote:

> You have to encode the Unicode object explicitely: print
> fileString.encode("utf-8")
> (or any other suitable one; I said utf-8 just because you read the input
> file using that)

Thanks! That's a nice little stumbling block for a newbie like me ;) Is 
there a way to make utf-8 the default encoding for every string, so that 
I do not have to encode each string explicitly?