gistfile1.py

>>> from lxml.etree import fromstring
>>> fromstring('<s/>')
<Element s at 0x10cc34050>
>>> fromstring('<ș/>')
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u0219' in position 9: ordinal not in range(128)
>>> fromstring(u'<ș/>')
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u0219' in position 9: ordinal not in range(128)