From: "Bartosz Dziewoński" Date: 2012-02-01T02:16:04+09:00 Subject: Re: 'Special' characters - £ sign showing as ú Set the correct encoding for the source file - in this case, at this line at the top of the file: "# coding: iso-8859-1" (without the quotes). If you do it, you will also be able to just use the pound sign directly, without relying on its code. Also, non-ASCII characters probably won't work in cmd window anyway - you'd have to encode them with whatever encoding cmd uses (you can see or change it using the chcp command). -- Matma Rex