Edit:

Using Mac OSX 10.6, whether I use Terminal.app or iTerm.app, when I launch Python, I can no longer type accented letters (e.g.é or ä).

Any ideas?

ORIGINAL POST:
I am using iTerm 0.10.

I would like to type in a string with accented characters (e.g. é) but when I do so at the iTerm prompt, no character appears.

This does not occur in Terminal.

Could someone help me find out what the problem is, and eventually fix it?

EDIT: In Terminal.app, I can use accented characters. However, when I launch the Python 2.71 prompt, I can no longer type in accented characters. When I quit python and return to the terminal prompt, I can again type accented characters.

In iTerm, although I quit Python and restarted iTerm, I cannot type in accented characters (I do not know if I could before).