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The output should already be encoded correctly with the .encode('utf-8') in the end. Worked for my finnish entries as far as I remember. What is the error exactly?

When that happens, probably you could ask for confirmation of restoring libsysuid-screenlock-nokia.css during update process? Or simply not replace the actual one and put that as an option within Billboard?
That would actually be great!

I'm sure this has been asked before, but I'm not aware of a solution:
Is there a chance to dimm standby screen?

The print line below gives me error about non ASCII chars, which are in this case the letter "ä". If they are replaced with "a", script runs without error.
I did $ locale -a to see what locales are installed in my device, and get fi and fi_FI. I tried to modify code with encode('fi_FI.utf-8'), but no luck.

Locale won't change a thing for whatever weird reason.

Try declaring the encoding by adding

#-*- coding: utf-8 -*-

after #!/usr/bin/python

and get rid of the .encode('utf-8') part everywhere. I think that will do the trick. If it does, let me know and I'll change it in github.

Ok, now it works.... almost. Script works fully in terminal with scandic letters too, but in bb, it only prints output if there is no events in x days. So if event is found it does not get printed in bb, but in terminal it works. Weird

Did you remove the .encode('utf-8') part everywhere?

Sorry to do this the difficult way, I don't have my half-broken N9 here.

yes i removed them all. Weird how it fully works in terminal, but only partly in bb.

I can't remember if there is a limitation to line length in BB. Try printing fewer things in the last line as a test. For example try:

print weekday,title

and see if that works. If it does, add more things and see what screws it up.

declare text as unicode string:

Sorted it finally... Actually the line "print weekday, title, ..." needed .encode('utf-8') afterall to output in bb. And then again #-*- coding: utf-8 -*- is needed to print scandic letters.