Thanks for the advice. It seems that I have to spend more time in encoding to get this to work.

The strange thing that I do not understand is when I do the below it is ok.

>>> text = "itself ‘a parody’."
>>> print text
itself ‘a parody’.

But when I display via Tkinter I will have a difference result like " itself ﾑa parodyﾒ.".

To me it is really strange that even a print statment can manage the characters but not via Tkinter...