UnicodeEncode Error ?

[Rama Vadakattu]

While doing the below

1) fetch  html page
2) extract title using BeatifulSoup
3) Save into the database.

iam getting the below error (at the bottom).

Few observations which i had:
     1) type of variable which holds this title is <class
'BeautifulSoup.NavigableString'>
     2) iam getting this problem when the title has character whose
ordinal value > 128

I searched in google and tried various suggestions but none of them is
working.And also i couldnot able to understand the rootcause for such
a kind of behaviour.

What will be the root cause for such a kind of problem?Any hint on how
to resolve this error?

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Error
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "fetchcron.py", line 11, in <module>
    cmanager.triggerfetchFeed()
  File "/home/rama/djangoprojects/socialreader/views.py", line 40, in
triggerfetchFeed
    self.fetchFeed(furl)
  File "/home/rama/djangoprojects/socialreader/views.py", line 102, in
fetchFeed
    ne.save()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/django/db/models/base.py",
line 311, in save
    self.save_base(force_insert=force_insert,
force_update=force_update)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/django/db/models/base.py",
line 383, in save_base
    result = manager._insert(values, return_id=update_pk)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/django/db/models/manager.py",
line 138, in _insert
    return insert_query(self.model, values, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/django/db/models/query.py",
line 894, in insert_query
    return query.execute_sql(return_id)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/django/db/models/sql/
subqueries.py", line 309, in execute_sql
    cursor = super(InsertQuery, self).execute_sql(None)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/django/db/models/sql/
query.py", line 1734, in execute_sql
    cursor.execute(sql, params)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/django/db/backends/util.py",
line 19, in execute
    return self.cursor.execute(sql, params)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/django/db/backends/mysql/
base.py", line 83, in execute
    return self.cursor.execute(query, args)
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/MySQLdb/cursors.py", line
151, in execute
    query = query % db.literal(args)
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/MySQLdb/connections.py",
line 247, in literal
    return self.escape(o, self.encoders)
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/MySQLdb/connections.py",
line 180, in string_literal
    return db.string_literal(obj)
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xc9' in
position 1: ordinal not in range(128)
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