On 2/23/06, Diez B. Roggisch <deets at nospam.web.de> wrote: > "äöü".decode("ascii") > should do the trick -- you get an UnicodeError when there is anything ascii > can't encode. Thank you. This is good enought for me. Best regards, SB. -- Bioinformatics news: http://www.bioinformatica.info Lriser: http://www.linspire.com/lraiser_success.php?serial=318