Write tests involving Unicode strings

[dittos]

I'm not confident about Unicode support.

[rawls238]

I'll give this a shot when I get back to working on this tonight / tomorrow

[mpaolini]

for instance there are str() calls in the wild that are craving to throw UnicodeEncodeError: on python 2.7

[mpaolini]

in general supporting python 2.7 and python 3.3+ makes unicode handling quite tricky. I suggest using python future library (or six) to handle this consistently here they talk about str() . See also django for a complete example.

[rawls238]

going to use six for this

[jhgg]

#61 implements lots of clean-ups for Unicode Support. But there is more work to be done. I would base your work off of that branch (if it's not merged yet).