[Zope-dev] Showstopper UnicodeDecodeError on Zope import???

[Nick Bower]

I'm trying to import a zexp export (a Plone site actually) from a 
windows workstation to a zope server I built on Linux RH9 but it fails 
with a UnicodeDecodeError:

...
Module Products.ZCTextIndex.Lexicon, line 69, in sourceToWordIds
Module Products.ZCTextIndex.Lexicon, line 135, in _getWordIdCreate

UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xef in position 5: 
orginal not in range(128).

What is confusing is that the zexp *will* import to another linux zope 
build I have (on Mdk10) and sys.getdefaultencoding() and 
locale.getdefaultlocale() on the 2 linux machines are almost the same 
(the working one reports "en_GB, utf"/ascii and the non-working one 
reports "en_US, utf"/ascii), so I think this is a red herring.  I can't 
for the life of me work out what is going wrong as I built python myself 
on both Linux machines exactly the same.

Can anyone help me please???

Thanks, Nick