Hello, I'm curious as to how some of you handle non-ascii characters which come from Microsoft applications, in particular IE. I've got a system where people can enter text, the text is stored in properties. However, when you actually print out the string, there are non-ascii chars in it. For example, \x92 is the same as a single quote (') character, but in Microsoftese. This just caused a problem for me when trying to build an XML string to pass to a ParsedXML object. I had to create the string as a unicode string (u'') in order for it to work. Should I just always treat things in unicode? Thanks, -Chris