Printing UTF-8 mail to terminal

Hi,

I have a command-line program which creates an email containing German
umlauts.  On receiving the mail, my mail client displays the subject and
body correctly:

  Subject: Übung

  Sehr geehrter Herr Dr. Bennett,

  Dies ist eine Übung.

So far, so good.  However, when I use the --verbose option to print
the mail to the terminal via

  if args.verbose:
      print(mail)

I get:

  Subject: Übungsbetreff

  Sehr geehrter Herr Dr. Bennett,

  Dies ist eine =C3=9Cbung.

What do I need to do to prevent the body from getting mangled?

I seem to remember that I had issues in the past with a Perl version of
a similar program.  As far as I recall there was an issue with fact the
greeting is generated by querying a server, whereas the body is being
read from a file, which lead to oddities when the two bits were
concatenated.  But that might just have been a Perl thing.

Cheers,

Loris

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