Using umlauts in the Python script can render the script inoperable.
To avoid the problems, please follow these rules:
See also the following link for more info: http://docs.python.org/howto/unicode.html#unicode-literals-in-python-source-code)
Here is a basic set of escape sequences:
ä = \u00e4
ü = \u00fc
Ä = \u00c4
Ü = \u00dc
ö = \u00f6
ß = \u00df
Ö = \u00d6
A complete list of escape codes can be found here: http://www.utf8-chartable.de/
See Also
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