Trouble saving unicode text to file

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I'm working on a program that is supposed to save
different information to text files.

Because the program is in swedish i have to use
unicode text for ÅÄÖ letters.

When I run the following testscript I get an error message.

# -*- coding: cp1252 -*-

titel = "åäö"
titel = unicode(titel)

print "Titel type", type(titel)

fil = open("testfil.txt", "w")
fil.write(titel)
fil.close()


Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "D:\Documents and
Settings\Daniel\Desktop\Programmering\aaotest\aaotest2\aaotest2.pyw",
line 5, in ?
    titel = unicode(titel)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe5 in position 0:
ordinal not in range(128)


I need to have the titel variable in unicode format because when I
write
åäö in a entry box in Tkinkter it makes the value to a unicode
format
automaticly.

Are there anyone who knows an easy way to save this unicode format text
to a file?