it works fine on 64 bit machines but for some reason will not work on python 2.4.3 on a 32-bit instance.

i get the error

'utf8' codec can't decode bytes in position 76-79: invalid data

for the code

try:        
    str(sourceresult.sourcename).encode('utf8','replace')
except:
    raise Exception(  repr(sourceresult.sourcename ) )

it returns 'kazamidori blog\xf9'

i have modified my site.py file to make UTF8 the default encoding, but still doesnt seem to be working.