Starting point for unicode conversion

[Howard Lightstone]

I *foolishly* started a Python project (3 years ago) with considering 
Unicode issues.  Now, I want to resolve future problems with international 
versions of my software.

The key point here is Tkinter.  I believe (from reading this list) that I 
can expect that SOME returned text may be Unicode (depending on content and 
Windows locale settings).

Would it be best to just (somehow) force all text into Unicode or would it 
be "better" to handle specific instances?

I also have the problem of embedded text in data files I create that I have 
to store as *something* that I can fully recover and convert back to 
something reasonable even if the locale changes.

Any thoughts welcome .... this is something I am NOT looking forward to.

Thanks