Try declaring the charset as utf-8

trunk/python_scrapers/CGITemplate

@@ -26,6 +26,6 @@ parser = %(module)s.%(parser)s(authority_name, authority_short_name, base_url)
 xml = parser.getResults(day, month, year)
 
 
-print "Content-Type: text/xml"     # XML is following
+print "Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8"     # XML is following
 print
 print xml.encode("utf-8")                          # print the xml