Lad wrote: > for > print repr(RealName) command > I will get > > P?ibylov\xe1 Ludmila > where instead of ? should be also a character
that's not very likely; repr() always includes quotes, always escapes non-ASCII characters, and optionally includes a Unicode prefix. please try this print "*", repr(RealName), type(RealName), "*" and post the entire output; that is, *everything* between the asterisks. </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list