title: How to write German umlauts to a spreadsheet with xlsxwriter in Python
body: <p>I already tried this one, but when I open the Excel spreadsheet, the whole Excel file is blank. Is there another way?</p>
  
  <pre><code>import xlsxwriter
  
  ....
      sheet.write(1, 27, "Französisch".decode('latin1'), bold)
  </code></pre>