From: "Bartosz DziewoƄski" Date: 2012-09-01T17:56:19+09:00 Subject: Re: Beginner Help - Encoding error exporting/writing to CSV Can you show us the code? It would be easier to help. All I can recomment now is to add .encode('utf-8') (or .force_encoding('utf-8')) everywhere where you accept external input. Command line arguments? Downloaded website content? Files read from disk? Mark their encodings explicitly. -- Matma Rex