title: UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe4'
body: <p>I permanently get the following error:</p>
  
  <pre><code>UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe4' in position 27: ordinal not in range(128)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I already tried </p>
  
  <ol>
  <li><code>x.encode("ascii", "ignore")</code></li>
  <li><code>x.encode("utf-8")</code></li>
  <li><code>x.decode("utf-8")</code></li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>However, nothing works.</p>