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[QUOTE="klappnase, post: 1808593"]
Yes, I used a Tkinter.StringVar to keep track of the contents of an
Entry widget; as long as I entered only ascii characters get() returns
a byte string, as soon as a special character is entered it returns
unicode.
Anyway, my UnicodeVar() class seems to be a handy way to avoid
problems here.

I use a bunch of modules that contain helper functions for frequently
repeated tasks. So it sometimes happens for example that I call one of
my module functions to convert user input into unicode and then call
the next module function to convert it back to byte string to start
some file operation; that's what I meant with "excess decode/encode
cycles". However, trying to avoid these ended in totally messing up
the code.

I am using python-2.3.4 and get unicode errors:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position
24-25: ordinal not in range(128)
Thanks for the feedback

Michael
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