Josef Meile schrieb: >>Put this inside sitecustomize.py and *not* in z2.py >> >> >Thanks for your reply, but I didn't find this file. Where is it? > > > You could also try PYTHON_PREFIX/lib/python/site.py, there's already a variable named "encoding"; you should be able to set it there. (Worked at least with "iso8859-1" for me.) Martin