I am using 

from google.appengine.api import mail

To send email on app engine running python. When i checked the sent mail it could not handle the norwegian characters åæø. All åæø characters are turned into when reading the mail in gmail.

Below is the mail sending method called (removed some content).

```
mail.send_mail(sender="ExphilApp <xxxxx@gmail.com>",
                  to=email,
                  subject="Velkommen til ExPhil-appen",
                  body="""
    Hei {0}!
Takk for at du registerte deg til ExPhil-appen. Ditt brukernavn er {1}. 
For mer info, se www.exphilapp.no

    Hilsen Håkon

    """.format(name,username))

```

File encoding is:

```
# -*- coding: latin-1 -*-

```

The special case here is that i use the triple """ quote mark to construct the string as well as .format to insert users name and username. How can i make the string work with norwegian characters åæø?