title: python : working with german umlaut
body: <pre><code>months = ["Januar", "Februar", "März", "April", "Mai", "Juni", "Juli", "August", "September", "Oktober", "November", "Dezember"]
  
  print months[2].decode("utf-8")
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Printing month[2] fails with </p>
  
  <pre><code>UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode bytes in position 1-2: invalid data
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>help to get rid of this!</p>