Title: Umlauts in Python XML-RPC Scripts
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Description: Python needs to be tweaked to allow Umlauts ...
  
  
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Submitted in XML-RPC List by Dr. Martin Korff, thanks!

For those who read the previous mails on this topic, here the summary
	- which worked for me .
Goal: reading, changing, and updating of persons and enterprise
          involving non-ascii ('latin-1') data
          using python and the xmlrpclib.py

1. Python site configuration:
    In /usr/lib/python2.3/site.py
change
    encoding = "ascii"
to
    encoding = "utf-8"

2. The relevant lines from the top level script 'myupdate.py' are the 
following:
    #!/usr/bin/env python
    # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
  
3. Any new string to be assigned, edited in a 'iso-8859-1' encoding editor 
should
    be declared as python-unicode-string, e.g. 
       
        newattrvalue = u'newvaluewithaccents'
          
Finally it should be mentioned that a custom xmlrpclib.py is needed not only
for python2.2 but also for python2.3 since HTTP-Authentication still hasn't 
made it into the standard library