On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 3:45 AM, Ulli Horlacher <framstag at rus.uni-stuttgart.de> wrote: > As I am Python newbie I have not quite understood the Python character > encoding scheme :-} >> Where can I find a good introduction of this topic? Here are a couple of articles on the basics of Unicode: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html http://nedbatchelder.com/text/unipain.html If you can use Python 3, your life will be easier. Otherwise, you'll need to work some of this stuff out manually. ChrisA