Hi, I need to do a lot of string formating, and I have strings and/or unicode strings and when I do the following: "%s %s" % (u'Salut', 'H\xe4llo'), I get an exception : UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe4 in position 1: ordinal not in range(128) How can I insure I don't get an exception? Thanks, Nicolas