Trouble saving unicode text to file

["Martin v. Löwis"]

Svennglenn wrote:
> # -*- coding: cp1252 -*-
> 
> titel = "åäö"
> titel = unicode(titel)

Instead of this, just write

# -*- coding: cp1252 -*-

titel = u"åäö"

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

Instead of this, write

import codecs
fil = codecs.open("testfil.txt", "w", "cp1252")
fil.write(titel)
fil.close()

Instead of cp1252, consider using ISO-8859-1.

Regards,
Martin