First of all, it's quite a leap to jump to the Internet being broken from your inability to implement a relatively simple piece of code. Here's a tip: if your w

First of all, it's quite a leap to jump to the Internet being broken from your inability to implement a relatively simple piece of code. Here's a tip: if your web browser (a piece of software) can display the title, then you've just proven that piece of software you write can also do that. Understand where I'm going with this? I'm not a Python programmer, and I've never used BeautifulSoup, but find and fix problems and move on. If it's true that Python can't handle Unicode (which I find a little hard to believe based on http://docs.python.org/howto/unicode.html http://docs.python.org/howto/unicode.html ), then switch to another scripting language like Ruby or Lua. I understand that debugging can be frustrating (believe me, we've all been there), but making a hyperbolic jump to the Internet being broken is a little silly. Good luck :)