On Thu, 2 May 2002 14:21:56 +0200, "Werner Schiendl" <ws-news at gmx.at> wrote: >use the 'right' names for the encodings: > >>>> x=u'some text' >>>> x.encode('iso-8859-1') >'some text' >>>> x.encode('iso-8859-2') >'some text' THANX! It solve everything. :-) -- Johann