Could you please tell me what the 'locale' command shows or what your $LANG environment variable is set to? I think you're set to an ASCII locale where these characters aren't supported.
With LANG=en_AU.UTF-8 this works for me. -- exceptions.UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character https://launchpad.net/bugs/63324 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
