title: python unichr problem
body: <p>I've got some problem with <code>unichr()</code> on my server. Please see below:</p>
  
  <p>On my server (Ubuntu 9.04):</p>
  
  <pre><code>&gt;&gt;&gt; print unichr(255)
  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "&lt;stdin&gt;", line 1, in &lt;module&gt;
  UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xff' in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>On my desktop (Ubuntu 9.10):</p>
  
  <pre><code>&gt;&gt;&gt; print unichr(255)
  ÿ
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I'm fairly new to python so I don't know how to solve this. Anyone care to help? Thanks. </p>