[Zope] Dealing with non-ASCII strings?

Hi there In the data that we have to work with, there are names in French, Turkish, German, Greek, etc. A sample string, when printed from Python, is: 'Rabia-r\xddza Bi\xe7en \xf6grenci Yurdu.G\xf6r\xfckle' We'd like to store this data in LDAP and in Zope. Questions: - How do we find out what the current encoding of the strings are? Guess? - Say we decide it's Latin-7. How do we convert from the current string to Unicode, taking into account the fact that the source is taken to be Latin-7? - Do we need to move to Zope 2.6 in order to cope with such strings? -- Jean Jordaan Upfront Systems http://www.upfrontsystems.co.za