Hello, according to dicuss aboutl farewell of Python 2.4 I tried to update my 2.5 to 2.7.2. And I have good reason for me to stay on old version I am using Windows XP cz (windows-1250) When I have in my user-config no console_encoding: Py 2.5 : -I have good czech characters in terminal window - I can write e.q. Interwiki.py Dobříš - I can write e.g. interwiki.py and after ask I write Dobříš = everything works well for me Py 2.6+ -I have bad czech characters in terminal window (ˇ instead of í, " " instead of á, nothing instead of ů, ý instead of ř....) - I can write e.q. Interwiki.py Dobříš - I can write e.g. interwiki.py and after ask I write Dobříš = I am not able to read in terminal window With console_encoding='windows-1250' Py 2.6+ -I have good czech characters in terminal window - I can write e.q. Interwiki.py Dobříš - I can't write e.g. interwiki.py and after ask I write Dobříš = I am not able to write to terminal window With console_encoding='utf-8' Py 2.6+ -I have bad non-base-ASCII characters in terminal window (two or three instead of one, translitertation for cyrilic or asian languages doesn't work - I can't write e.q. Interwiki.py Dobříš - bot crashes - I can't write e.g. interwiki.py and after ask I write Dobříš - bot crashes = I am not able to read or write to terminal window With console_encoding='ISO 8859-2' -I have good czech characters in terminal window - I can't write e.q. Interwiki.py Dobříš - page does not exist - I can't write e.g. interwiki.py and after ask I write Dobříš - page does not exist, bad chars in terminal window = I am not able to write to terminal window So, how to use py 2.6+ and with correct and usable encoding? Or, should I write this to survey page? JAnD