How can I deal with accented letters, german letters and other characters?

Don't parse http://translate.google.com/translate_t since Google provides an AJAX service for this purpose. The translatedText in the json data returned by ajax.googleapis.com is already a unicode string.

Parse the proper charset from the headers returned by urlopen() and pass it as the fromEncoding argument to the BeautifulSoup constructor.

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