Parser fails on non ASCII strings on python 2

[marnunez]

Under python2, using non ASCII characters raises UnicodeEncodeError.
How would you like this to be addressed?

[gatkin]

Good catch, we're definitely missing tests for unicode handling. To fix this, I think it would be best to create a failing test here for the issue, and then we will probably have to fix the unicode handling when reading XML data from a file in parse_from_file(). Most likely, it will probably be best to just use the ElementTree.parse function to read the file data and let ElementTree handle unicode for us.

I can probably get to this within the next week or two and push out a new release to PyPi, but if you are able to open a pull request with the fix, that would be great as well!

[marnunez]

Ohh alright, trust ET.parse to pick up the right encoding from the XML header, right? And fallback to utf-8 if missing, I assume. I made a few fast modifications, I need some results for a project I'm working on (the urgent never leaves time for the important, right?), so I ended up adding the encoding as an optional parameter. Nevertheless, I would leave something like this as an option too, in case of a wrongly formatted XML.
First time dealing with the infamous Unicode pain. Hopefully the last one!

[gatkin]

Resolved in #10