UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 1-4: ordinal not in range(128)

I see tons of questions that are related to this but I can't figure out the solution. This is on Django 1.4 and Python 2.7. `data` is a dictionary that contains UTF8 characters. See this line: `render_to_response('application/app.html', data, context_instance=RequestContext(request))` Template gets rendered that outputs values from that `data`. Why does it explode and what can I do to fix this? EDIT: After digging around, part of that `data` contains `lxml.objectify.ObjectifiedElement`. Basically a XML element that can be queried like a normal dictionary. Values that it produces appear to be proper unicode strings like this: `u'\xae\u2020\xa5\xa8\u02c6\xf8'` Here's the full stacktrace: ``` File "/web/mysite/env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/handlers/base.py", line 111, in get_response response = callback(request, *callback_args, **callback_kwargs) File "/web/mysite/current/api/views.py", line 163, in invoice return render_to_response('application/app.html', data, context_instance=RequestContext(request)) File "/web/mysite/env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/shortcuts/__init__.py", line 20, in render_to_response return HttpResponse(loader.render_to_string(*args, **kwargs), **httpresponse_kwargs) File "/web/mysite/env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/template/loader.py", line 176, in render_to_string return t.render(context_instance) File "/web/mysite/env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/template/base.py", line 140, in render return self._render(context) File "/web/mysite/env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/template/base.py", line 134, in _render return self.nodelist.render(context) File "/web/mysite/env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/template/base.py", line 823, in render bit = self.render_node(node, context) File "/web/mysite/env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/template/base.py", line 837, in render_node return node.render(context) File "/web/mysite/env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/template/loader_tags.py", line 123, in render return compiled_parent._render(context) File "/web/mysite/env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/template/base.py", line 134, in _render return self.nodelist.render(context) File "/web/mysite/env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/template/base.py", line 823, in render bit = self.render_node(node, context) File "/web/mysite/env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/template/base.py", line 837, in render_node return node.render(context) File "/web/mysite/env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/template/loader_tags.py", line 62, in render result = block.nodelist.render(context) File "/web/mysite/env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/template/base.py", line 823, in render bit = self.render_node(node, context) File "/web/mysite/env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/template/base.py", line 837, in render_node return node.render(context) File "/web/mysite/env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/template/defaulttags.py", line 281, in render return nodelist.render(context) File "/web/mysite/env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/template/base.py", line 823, in render bit = self.render_node(node, context) File "/web/mysite/env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/template/base.py", line 837, in render_node return node.render(context) File "/web/mysite/env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/template/base.py", line 880, in render return _render_value_in_context(output, context) File "/web/mysite/env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/template/base.py", line 858, in _render_value_in_context value = force_unicode(value) File "/web/mysite/env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/utils/encoding.py", line 74, in force_unicode s = unicode(str(s), encoding, errors) UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 1-4: ordinal not in range(128) ```