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[John Ladasky]

Jerry,

I can tell from your code that you are using Python 2.  If you are a new Python programmer, and you do not HAVE to use Python 2, use Python 3 instead.

In Python 3, text objects are something called "Unicode" rather than just sequences of bytes.  Unicode makes it much easier to handle characters which are not part of the English alphabet.