Issue with non english characters

[bafonso]

Just got this using 2.7, conda environment w/ tensorflow. My library definitely has a lot of accents

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UnicodeEncodeError                        Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-2-df9cbca52326> in <module>()
     19     if song and song.rating:
     20         if song.rating > 80:
---> 21             print("{n}, {r}".format(n=song.name, r=song.rating))

UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xf1' in position 5: ordinal not in range(128)

I'm simply testing out the code for using pickle.

[bafonso]

how is song.name read from itunes xml? itunes has utf-8 encoding, is the file being parsed as utf-8?