Eric van der Vlist <vdv@dyomedea.com> writes: > Weird, isn't it? That's a known bug in Python 2.2, which has been fixed in Python 2.3. MAL says the fix cannot be backported to 2.2.2, since it requires bumping the pyc revision. I recommend to use unicode("your-string-as-utf8","utf-8") instead of u"your-string-as-unicode-literal" Regards, Martin