<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV>Many thanks Gabriel</DIV><BR><BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Convert to unicode right there, using <SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">read_text.decode("ascii"). You have unicode now.</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>That's exactly what I was searching for.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>This new line:</DIV><DIV> </DIV><DIV>text = text.decode("ascii")</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>solved my problem.</DIV><DIV> </DIV><DIV>Best</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>-a-</DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV>--------------------------------------------------</DIV><DIV>Andrea Valle</DIV><DIV>--------------------------------------------------</DIV><DIV>CIRMA - DAMS</DIV><DIV>Università degli Studi di Torino</DIV><DIV>--> <A href="http://www.cirma.unito.it/andrea/">http://www.cirma.unito.it/andrea/</A></DIV><DIV>--> <A href="mailto:andrea.valle@unito.it">andrea.valle@unito.it</A></DIV><DIV>--------------------------------------------------</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV> <FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.7px;"><I style="font-size: 12.7px; font-style: italic; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.7px; font-style: italic; ">I did this interview where I just mentioned that I read Foucault</SPAN></I></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.7px;"><I style="font-size: 12.7px; font-style: italic; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.7px; font-style: italic; ">. Who doesn't in university</SPAN></I></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.7px;"><I style="font-size: 12.7px; font-style: italic; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.7px; font-style: italic; ">, right? I was in this strip club</SPAN></I></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.7px;"><I style="font-size: 12.7px; font-style: italic; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.7px; font-style: italic; "> giving this guy a lap dance</SPAN></I></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.7px;"><I style="font-size: 12.7px; font-style: italic; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.7px; font-style: italic; "> and all he wanted to do was to discuss Foucault with me. Well, I can stand naked and do my little dance, or I can discuss Foucault, but not at the same time; too much information.</SPAN></I></SPAN></FONT><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.7px;"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.7px; ">(Annabel Chong)</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV></SPAN></SPAN><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN> </DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>