decoding string from jasmin problems

Question

I'm receiving an encoded string from jasmis-sms, the original string is áéíóú ñaña!, jasmin does some encoding and gives me:

����� �a�a! (in my terminal)

which chardet detects as charset: windows-1252 But when trying to decode that with

Message.decode('windows-1252')

But that returns

<type 'exceptions.UnicodeEncodeError'>: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe1' in position 11: ordinal not in range(128)

String is coming from jasmin-sms on an interception python script

The script is launched by jasmin-sms on receiving an SMS via smpp, it injects a global variable routable, which contains all the SMS's data, the complete code is:

python2

import urllib
import urllib2
import re
import chardet

file=open('/opt/jasmin-scritps/interception/mo-interceptor.log','a')
file.write('===============================================================================\n')
file.write('Start logging...\n')

SMS_to = routable.pdu.params['destination_addr']
SMS_from = routable.pdu.params['source_addr']

SMS_message = routable.pdu.params['short_message']

file.write('To: [%s]\n' % SMS_to )
file.write('From: [%s]\n' % SMS_from )
file.write('ShortMessage: [%s]\n' % SMS_message.encode("hex") )
file.write('data-coding: [%s]\n' % routable.pdu.params['data_coding'] )
file.write('charset: %s\n' % chardet.detect( SMS_message )['encoding'] )
file.write('decoded: [%s]\n' % SMS_message )
file.write('SmppSatus: [%s]\n' % smpp_status )

file.write('Content: [%s]\n' % routable.pdu.params['short_message'] )

And I'm not sure how to solve this problem.

And help is really appreciated!