John and Martin, Thanks for your help. However, I have identified the culprit to be with Apache and the command: AddDefaultCharset utf-8 which forces my browser to utf-8 encoding.
It looks like your suggestions to change charset were incorrect. My example works equally well with charset=utf8 as it does with charset=windows-1252. Incidentally, next time, if you really want to be helpful, might I suggest you leave out the mocking. I could care less, myself, but someone else might have gotten their feelings hurt. And in the end, it doesn't make you look good. Thanks again. Cheers. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list