title: How can I deal with accented letters, german letters and other characters?
body: <p>My python script is working now, but I'm having a little trouble:</p>
  
  <p>Here is the output:</p>
  
  <pre><code>from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup
  import urllib
  
  langCode={
      "arabic":"ar", "bulgarian":"bg", "chinese":"zh-CN",
      "croatian":"hr", "czech":"cs", "danish":"da", "dutch":"nl",
      "english":"en", "finnish":"fi", "french":"fr", "german":"de",
      "greek":"el", "hindi":"hi", "italian":"it", "japanese":"ja",
      "korean":"ko", "norwegian":"no", "polish":"pl", "portugese":"pt",
      "romanian":"ro", "russian":"ru", "spanish":"es", "swedish":"sv" }
  
  def setUserAgent(userAgent):
      urllib.FancyURLopener.version = userAgent
      pass
  
  def translate(text, fromLang, toLang):
      setUserAgent("Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070400 SUSE/3.0.1-0.1 Firefox/3.0.1")
      try:
          postParameters = urllib.urlencode({"langpair":"%s|%s" %(langCode[fromLang.lower()],langCode[toLang.lower()]), "text":text,"ie":"UTF8", "oe":"UTF8"})
      except KeyError, error:
          print "Currently we do not support %s" %(error.args[0])
          return
  
      page = urllib.urlopen("http://translate.google.com/translate_t", postParameters)
      content = page.read()
      page.close()
  
      htmlSource = BeautifulSoup(content)
      translation = htmlSource.find('span', title=text )
      return translation.renderContents()
  
  
  print translate("Good morning to you friend!", "English", "German")
  print translate("Good morning to you friend!", "English", "Italian")
  print translate("Good morning to you friend!", "English", "Spanish")
  
  Guten Morgen, du Freund!
  Buongiorno a te amico!
  Buenos dÃ­as a ti amigo!
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>How do I manage the letters that aren't basic english letters? How would you recommend I solve this? I was thinking a dictionary to replace certain chains with another character, but I'm sure Python has something like this already. Batteries included and whatnot. :P</p>
  
  <p>Thanks.</p>