Akihiro KAYAMAwrote: > 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