Andreas Hinzmann was kind enough to say: > I have also tried to configure python with --enable-unicode=ucs4, but it > didn't help.
But it should. try printing sys.maxunicode from your interpreter; if it's 2^16, then the interpreter is ucs2. If it's something more than 10 ^ 6, it's ucs4. -- Alan Franzoni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Remove .xyz from my email in order to contact me. - GPG Key Fingerprint: 5C77 9DC3 BD5B 3A28 E7BC 921A 0255 42AA FE06 8F3E -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list