Problem with national characters

[Leif B. Kristensen]

david.tolpin at gmail.com wrote:

> put
> 
> import sys
> sys.setdefaultencoding('UTF-8')
> 
> into sitecustomize.py in the top level of your PYTHONPATH .

Uh ... it doesn't seem like I've got PYTHONPATH defined on my system in
the first place:

leif at balapapa leif $ env |grep -i python
PYTHONDOCS=/usr/share/doc/python-docs-2.3.4/html

I ran this small snippet that I found after a search on Gentoo-forums:

>>> import sys
>>> import string
>>> path_list = sys.path
>>> for eachPath in path_list: print eachPath
...

/usr/lib/python23.zip
/usr/lib/python2.3
/usr/lib/python2.3/plat-linux2
/usr/lib/python2.3/lib-tk
/usr/lib/python2.3/lib-dynload
/usr/lib/portage/pym
/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages
/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/gtk-2.0
>>>   

What should my PYTHONPATH look like, and where do you suggest to put the
sitecustomize.py file? 
-- 
Leif Biberg Kristensen
http://solumslekt.org/