From a542ed48a23cfbc526a1876ec135d4e43b37a38f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bruno Oliveira <nicoddemus@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2017 15:18:41 -0300
Subject: [PATCH] Convert using utf-8 instead of ascii in safe_str()

This way we don't lose information and the returned string is
ascii-compatible anyway
---
 _pytest/compat.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/_pytest/compat.py b/_pytest/compat.py
index cc2954bff..4f2013dac 100644
--- a/_pytest/compat.py
+++ b/_pytest/compat.py
@@ -240,4 +240,4 @@ else:
             if not isinstance(v, unicode):
                 v = unicode(v)
             errors = 'replace'
-            return v.encode('ascii', errors)
+            return v.encode('utf-8', errors)