On Wed, 7 Mar 2007, Dan Shechter wrote: [...] >>>> codecs.lookup("UTF-8") > Traceback (most recent call last): > File , line 0, in <stdin>##89 > File , line 0, in Lookup##78 > LookupError: unknown encoding: UTF-8 > > Suggestions, alternatives? Did you try 'utf-8' (i.e. lowercase)? John