How to use 8bit character sets?

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"Chris Curvey" <ccurvey at gmail.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> Check out sitecustomize.py.
>
> http://diveintopython.org/xml_processing/unicode.html

Thanks but I'm looking for a way to do this on application level (i.e. I
want my app to run in an unmodified interpreter enviroment).

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