[Tutor] binary translator

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Hey i have created a program that turns a string into a binary one. But when i began to test the program it turned out that it could not handle  some special characters (e.g ÆØÅ). Could someone please help me?   

p.s i am a newbie so if you have any comments on the source code please let me know  

here is the source code:

#!/usr/bin/python
# -*- coding: Latin-1 -*-
import os, sys
import sys

def ChooSe():
	print
	print " encrypt " 
	print " quit    "
	print
	
	choice = raw_input("What do you need: ")
	
	if choice == "encrypt": 
		encrypt()
	elif choice == "quit": 
		kExit()
	else:
		print "Invalid choice"
		ChooSe()	 

def kExit():
	xit = raw_input("Do you really want to quit? ")
	kY = ('y','Y','yes','yah','yeah')
	kN = ('n','N','no','nah')
	if xit in kN:
		ChooSe()
	elif xit in kY:
		print "Goodbye!"
		print
		sys.exit()
	else:
		print "Invalid choice"
		ChooSe()
def encrypt():
	
	print
	print "  encryption  "
	print		
			
	secret = raw_input('Text to encrypt: ')
	code = list(secret)
	
	
	chartobinary = {
		'A' : '01000001',
		'B' : '01000010',
		'C' : '01000011',
		'D' : '01000100',
		'E' : '01000101',
		'F' : '01000110',
		'G' : '01000111',
		'H' : '01001000',
		'I' : '01001001',
		'J' : '01001010',
		'K' : '01001011',
		'L' : '01001100',
		'M' : '01001101',
		'N' : '01001110',
		'O' : '01001111',
		'P' : '01010000',
		'Q' : '01010001',
		'R' : '01010010',
		'S' : '01010011',
		'T' : '01010100',
		'U' : '01010101',
		'V' : '01010110',
		'W' : '01010111',
		'X' : '01011000',
		'Y' : '01011001',
		'Z' : '01011010',
		'a' : '01100001',
		'b' : '01100010',
		'c' : '01100011',
		'd' : '01100100',
		'e' : '01100101',
		'f' : '01100110',
		'g' : '01100111',
		'h' : '01101000',
		'i' : '01101001',
		'j' : '01101010',
		'k' : '01101011',
		'l' : '01101100',
		'm' : '01101101',
		'n' : '01101110',
		'o' : '01101111',
		'p' : '01110000',
		'q' : '01110001',
		'r' : '01110010',
		's' : '01110011',
		't' : '01110100',
		'u' : '01110101',
		'v' : '01110110',
		'w' : '01110111',
		'x' : '01111000',
		'y' : '01111001',
		'z' : '01111010',
		' ' : '00100000',
		'!' : '00100001',
		"\\" : '00100010',
		'#' : '00100011',
		'$' : '00100100',
		'%' : '00100101',
		'&' : '00100110',
		"'" : '00100111',
		'(' : '00101000',
		')' : '00101001',
		'*' : '00101010',
		'+' : '00101011',
		',' : '00101100',
		'-' : '00101101',
		'.' : '00101110',
		'/' : '00101111',
		':' : '00111010',
		';' : '00111011',
		'<' : '00111100',
		'=' : '00111101',
		'>' : '00111110',
		'?' : '00111111',
		'@' : '01000000',
		'[' : '01011011',
		']' : '01011101',
		'^' : '01011110',
		'_' : '01011111',
		'`' : '01100000',
		'{' : '01111011',
		'|' : '01111100',
		'}' : '01111101',
		'~' : '01111110',
		'€' : '10000000',
		'¡' : '10100001',
		'¢' : '10100010',
		'£' : '10100011',
		'¤' : '10100100',
		'¥' : '10100101',
		'¦' : '10100110',
		'§' : '10100111',
		'¨' : '10101000',
		'©' : '10101001',
		'ª' : '10101010',
		'«' : '10101011',
		'¬' : '10101100',
		'®' : '10101110',
		'¯' : '10101111',
		'°' : '10110000',
		'±' : '10110001',
		'²' : '10110010',
		'³' : '10110011',
		'´' : '10110100',
		'µ' : '10110101',
		'¶' : '10110110',
		'·' : '10110111',
		'¸' : '10111000',
		'¹' : '10111001',
		'º' : '10111010',
		'»' : '10111011',
		'¼' : '10111100',
		'½' : '10111101',
		'¾' : '01111110',
		'¿' : '10111111',
		'À' : '11000000',
		'Á' : '11000001',
		'Â' : '11000010',
		'Ã' : '11000011',
		'Ä' : '11000100',
		'Å' : '11000101',
		'Æ' : '11000110',
		'Ç' : '11000111',
		'È' : '11001000',
		'É' : '11001001',
		'Ê' : '11001010',
		'Ë' : '11001011',
		'Ì' : '11001100',
		'Í' : '11001101',
		'Î' : '11001110',
		'Ï' : '11001111',
		'Ð' : '11010000',
		'Ñ' : '11010001',
		'Ò' : '11010010',
		'Ó' : '11010011',
		'Ô' : '11010100',
		'Õ' : '11010101',
		'Ö' : '11010110',
		'×' : '11010111',
		'Ø' : '11011000',
		'Ù' : '11011001',
		'Ú' : '11011010',
		'Û' : '11011011',
		'Ü' : '11011100',
		'Ý' : '11011101',
		'Þ' : '11011110',
		'ß' : '11011111',
		'à' : '11100000',
		'á' : '11100001',
		'â' : '11100010',
		'ã' : '11100011',
		'ä' : '11100100',
		'å' : '11100101',
		'æ' : '11100110',
		'ç' : '11100111',
		'è' : '11101000',
		'é' : '11101001',
		'ê' : '11101010',
		'ë' : '11101011',
		'ì' : '11101100',
		'í' : '11101101',
		'î' : '11101110',
		'ï' : '11101111',
		'ð' : '11110000',
		'ñ' : '11110001',
		'ò' : '11110010',
		'ó' : '11110011',
		'ô' : '11110100',
		'õ' : '11110101',
		'ö' : '11110110',
		'÷' : '11110111',
		'ø' : '11111000',
		'ù' : '11111001',
		'ú' : '11111010',
		'û' : '11111011',
		'û' : '11111100',
		'ý' : '11111101',
		'þ' : '11111110',
		'ÿ' : '11111111',
		'0' : '00110000',
		'1' : '00110001',
		'2' : '00110010',
		'3' : '00110011',
		'4' : '00110100',
		'5' : '00110101',
		'6' : '00110110',
		'7' : '00110111',
		'8' : '00111000',
		'9' : '00111001',
			}	
	def TransLate():
		key = 1
		fTransLaTion = chartobinary[code[0]]
		aTransLaTion = ""
		while key <= len(code) - 1:
			TransLaTion = chartobinary[code[key]]
			key = key + 1
			aTransLaTion = aTransLaTion+TransLaTion
		lTranslation = fTransLaTion+aTransLaTion
		print lTranslation	
	TransLate()		
	ChooSe()
ChooSe()		 
 
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