I doubt that this is related to your problem, but since you're using Python 3, shouldn't that shebang be "#!/usr/bin/python3"?
From: Rodolfo Neu <rneu2011@xxxxxxxxx>
To: pygame-users@xxxxxxxx
Sent: Tue, February 8, 2011 1:41:32 PM
Subject: [pygame] loading images with special characters on file name
Hi,
After installing Python 3.1.3, I have problems loading images whose file name contains special characters, like ã and çPygame.image.load doesn't work even with:
#!/usr/bin/python
# -*- coding utf-8 -*-
Any help, please?