Akihiro KAYAMA  wrote:
> I'm also using Quixote-2 for my Japanese(UTF-8) application.  Here is
> a kludge I'm using to set default encoding without modifying global
> site module:
>
>    import sys
>    reload(sys)
>    sys.setdefaultencoding("utf-8")
>
> It can't be appropriate, but it works perfectly for getting rid of
> annoying 'ascii' codec error.

No, it's not appropriate.

  Neil