title: Country name from ISO short code in dictionary, how to deal with non-ascii chars
body: <p>I'm making a webapp that takes country short code (google app engine get from request header) and I want to get the country name (full name) not just the 2 letter initials.</p>
  
  <p>I tried making a python dictionary but it breaks bkz the names have non-ascii chars (accent marks, etc).. I used the python library "pycountry" but I'm not sure how to include that in my google app engine project. unfortunately pycountries output also has accent marks, so i can't just copy their txt values and make a dictionary...</p>
  
  <p>Besides, I just want the country code to name lookup table, no other details...</p>
  
  <p>Here's a copy of the dictionarys i've been trying to make but they have these annoying accent marks...</p>
  
  <p>Thanks for the help in advance</p>
  
  <pre><code>short2long = {"AF":"Afghanistan",
  "AX":"Aland Islands",
  "AL":"Albania",
  "DZ":"Algeria",
  "AS":"American Samoa",
  "AD":"Andorra",
  "AO":"Angola",
  "AI":"Anguilla",
  "AQ":"Antarctica",
  "AG":"Antigua and Barbuda",
  "AR":"Argentina",
  "AM":"Armenia",
  "AW":"Aruba",
  "AU":"Australia",
  "AT":"Austria",
  "AZ":"Azerbaijan",
  "BS":"Bahamas",
  "BH":"Bahrain",
  "BD":"Bangladesh",
  "BB":"Barbados",
  "BY":"Belarus",
  "BE":"Belgium",
  "BZ":"Belize",
  "BJ":"Benin",
  "BM":"Bermuda",
  "BT":"Bhutan",
  "BO":"Bolivia, Plurinational State of",
  "BQ":"Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba",
  "BA":"Bosnia and Herzegovina",
  "BW":"Botswana",
  "BV":"Bouvet Island",
  "BR":"Brazil",
  "IO":"British Indian Ocean Territory",
  "BN":"Brunei Darussalam",
  "BG":"Bulgaria",
  "BF":"Burkina Faso",
  "BI":"Burundi",
  "KH":"Cambodia",
  "CM":"Cameroon",
  "CA":"Canada",
  "CV":"Cape Verde",
  "KY":"Cayman Islands",
  "CF":"Central African Republic",
  "TD":"Chad",
  "CL":"Chile",
  "CN":"China",
  "CX":"Christmas Island",
  "CC":"Cocos (Keeling) Islands",
  "CO":"Colombia",
  "KM":"Comoros",
  "CG":"Congo",
  "CD":"Congo, The Democratic Republic of the",
  "CK":"Cook Islands",
  "CR":"Costa Rica",
  "CI":"Côte d'Ivoire",
  "HR":"Croatia",
  "CU":"Cuba",
  "CW":"Curaçao",
  "CY":"Cyprus",
  "CZ":"Czech Republic",
  "DK":"Denmark",
  "DJ":"Djibouti",
  "DM":"Dominica",
  "DO":"Dominican Republic",
  "EC":"Ecuador",
  "EG":"Egypt",
  "SV":"El Salvador",
  "GQ":"Equatorial Guinea",
  "ER":"Eritrea",
  "EE":"Estonia",
  "ET":"Ethiopia",
  "FK":"Falkland Islands (Malvinas)",
  "FO":"Faroe Islands",
  "FJ":"Fiji",
  "FI":"Finland",
  "FR":"France",
  "GF":"French Guiana",
  "PF":"French Polynesia",
  "TF":"French Southern Territories",
  "GA":"Gabon",
  "GM":"Gambia",
  "GE":"Georgia",
  "DE":"Germany",
  "GH":"Ghana",
  "GI":"Gibraltar",
  "GR":"Greece",
  "GL":"Greenland",
  "GD":"Grenada",
  "GP":"Guadeloupe",
  "GU":"Guam",
  "GT":"Guatemala",
  "GG":"Guernsey",
  "GN":"Guinea",
  "GW":"Guinea-Bissau",
  "GY":"Guyana",
  "HT":"Haiti",
  "HM":"Heard Island and McDonald Islands",
  "VA":"Holy See (Vatican City State)",
  "HN":"Honduras",
  "HK":"Hong Kong",
  "HU":"Hungary",
  "IS":"Iceland",
  "IN":"India",
  "ID":"Indonesia",
  "IR":"Iran, Islamic Republic of",
  "IQ":"Iraq",
  "IE":"Ireland",
  "IM":"Isle of Man",
  "IL":"Israel",
  "IT":"Italy",
  "JM":"Jamaica",
  "JP":"Japan",
  "JE":"Jersey",
  "JO":"Jordan",
  "KZ":"Kazakhstan",
  "KE":"Kenya",
  "KI":"Kiribati",
  "KP":"Korea, Democratic People's Republic of",
  "KR":"Korea, Republic of",
  "KW":"Kuwait",
  "KG":"Kyrgyzstan",
  "LA":"Lao People's Democratic Republic",
  "LV":"Latvia",
  "LB":"Lebanon",
  "LS":"Lesotho",
  "LR":"Liberia",
  "LY":"Libya",
  "LI":"Liechtenstein",
  "LT":"Lithuania",
  "LU":"Luxembourg",
  "MO":"Macao",
  "MK":"Macedonia, Republic of",
  "MG":"Madagascar",
  "MW":"Malawi",
  "MY":"Malaysia",
  "MV":"Maldives",
  "ML":"Mali",
  "MT":"Malta",
  "MH":"Marshall Islands",
  "MQ":"Martinique",
  "MR":"Mauritania",
  "MU":"Mauritius",
  "YT":"Mayotte",
  "MX":"Mexico",
  "FM":"Micronesia, Federated States of",
  "MD":"Moldova, Republic of",
  "MC":"Monaco",
  "MN":"Mongolia",
  "ME":"Montenegro",
  "MS":"Montserrat",
  "MA":"Morocco",
  "MZ":"Mozambique",
  "MM":"Myanmar",
  "NA":"Namibia",
  "NR":"Nauru",
  "NP":"Nepal",
  "NL":"Netherlands",
  "NC":"New Caledonia",
  "NZ":"New Zealand",
  "NI":"Nicaragua",
  "NE":"Niger",
  "NG":"Nigeria",
  "NU":"Niue",
  "NF":"Norfolk Island",
  "MP":"Northern Mariana Islands",
  "NO":"Norway",
  "OM":"Oman",
  "PK":"Pakistan",
  "PW":"Palau",
  "PS":"Palestinian Territory, Occupied",
  "PA":"Panama",
  "PG":"Papua New Guinea",
  "PY":"Paraguay",
  "PE":"Peru",
  "PH":"Philippines",
  "PN":"Pitcairn",
  "PL":"Poland",
  "PT":"Portugal",
  "PR":"Puerto Rico",
  "QA":"Qatar",
  "RE":"Réunion",
  "RO":"Romania",
  "RU":"Russian Federation",
  "RW":"Rwanda",
  "BL":"Saint Barthélemy",
  "SH":"Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha",
  "KN":"Saint Kitts and Nevis",
  "LC":"Saint Lucia",
  "MF":"Saint Martin (French part)",
  "PM":"Saint Pierre and Miquelon",
  "VC":"Saint Vincent and the Grenadines",
  "WS":"Samoa",
  "SM":"San Marino",
  "ST":"Sao Tome and Principe",
  "SA":"Saudi Arabia",
  "SN":"Senegal",
  "RS":"Serbia",
  "SC":"Seychelles",
  "SL":"Sierra Leone",
  "SG":"Singapore",
  "SX":"Sint Maarten (Dutch part)",
  "SK":"Slovakia",
  "SI":"Slovenia",
  "SB":"Solomon Islands",
  "SO":"Somalia",
  "ZA":"South Africa",
  "GS":"South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands",
  "ES":"Spain",
  "LK":"Sri Lanka",
  "SD":"Sudan",
  "SR":"Suriname",
  "SS":"South Sudan",
  "SJ":"Svalbard and Jan Mayen",
  "SZ":"Swaziland",
  "SE":"Sweden",
  "CH":"Switzerland",
  "SY":"Syrian Arab Republic",
  "TW":"Taiwan, Province of China",
  "TJ":"Tajikistan",
  "TZ":"Tanzania, United Republic of",
  "TH":"Thailand",
  "TL":"Timor-Leste",
  "TG":"Togo",
  "TK":"Tokelau",
  "TO":"Tonga",
  "TT":"Trinidad and Tobago",
  "TN":"Tunisia",
  "TR":"Turkey",
  "TM":"Turkmenistan",
  "TC":"Turks and Caicos Islands",
  "TV":"Tuvalu",
  "UG":"Uganda",
  "UA":"Ukraine",
  "AE":"United Arab Emirates",
  "GB":"United Kingdom",
  "US":"United States",
  "UM":"United States Minor Outlying Islands",
  "UY":"Uruguay",
  "UZ":"Uzbekistan",
  "VU":"Vanuatu",
  "VE":"Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of",
  "VN":"Viet Nam",
  "VG":"Virgin Islands, British",
  "VI":"Virgin Islands, U.S.",
  "WF":"Wallis and Futuna",
  "EH":"Western Sahara",
  "YE":"Yemen",
  "ZM":"Zambia",
  "ZW":"Zimbabwe"}
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I tried to use this code to build the dictionary</p>
  
  <pre><code>import pycountry
  
  t = list(pycountry.countries)
  
  for country in t:
      print '"' + country.alpha2 + '":"' + country.name + '",'
  </code></pre>