Language localization?

[Franz GEIGER]

Regardless whether I run scripts within a console or within PythonWin, the
umlauts (ä = ae, ö = oe, ü = ue) and other special chars are not displayed
correctly.
E.g. \n seems to be "translated" to \012.
My Win NT 4.0 Svr is English speaking, but the regionals are set to German.

I use Python now for almost half a year and always displayed English dialogs
(until now I always could work around the \012-problem  somehow
with strip() and replace() ). But now I have to display German dialogs,
where I have to use umlauts. So this grows serious now.

Any hints?

Thanks in advance and
Best regards
Franz GEIGER