UnicodeEncodeError in Python 2.7.3

[jag34]

Testing with the article:

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/08/29/us-syria-crisis-obama-strategy-idUSKBN0GS2KT20140829

produced

File "summarize.py", line 30, in u
    return codecs.unicode_escape_decode(s)[0]
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u2019' in position 88: ordinal not in range(128)

Current work around using:

return s.encode('ascii', 'replace')

It seems to crash in the following paragraph

Representative Tom Price, a Georgia Republican, said on Twitter: "President says "we don’t have a strategy yet" to deal with #ISIS.
Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell, the top Republican in the Senate, said he thought Obama would have “significant congressional support” if he provided a strategic plan to protect the United States and its allies from the Sunni militants.

[vgel]

Hmm, I'm looking into this. I'm not sure why that codecs call is trying to create an ascii string at all, the point is that it returns a unicode string.

[vgel]

Sorry for the long lead time, but I just commited a fix for this.