convert strings to utf-8

[Niclas]

Hi

I'm having trouble to work with the special charcters in swedish (Å Ä Ö 
å ä ö). The script is parsing and extracting information from a webpage. 
This works fine and I get all the data correctly. The information is 
then added to a rss file (using xml.dom.minidom.Document() to create the 
file), this is where it goes wrong. Letters like Å ä ö get messed up and 
the rss file does not validate. How can I convert the data to UTF-8 
without loosing the special letters?

Thanks in advance