This is a sample doctest in a text file that contains non-ASCII characters. This file is encoded using UTF-8. In order to get this test to pass, we have to manually specify the encoding. >>> u'föö' u'f\xf6\xf6' >>> u'bąr' u'b\u0105r' >>> 'föö' 'f\xc3\xb6\xc3\xb6' >>> 'bąr' 'b\xc4\x85r'