diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index bc4ef54..ffbf8e5 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ Changes coming in the next release:
     * Issue 321 (malformed URIs can cause ValueError to be thrown)
     * Issue 323 (installing chardet causes 11 unit test failures)
     * Issue 325 (map `description_detail` to `summary_detail`)
+    * Issue 326 (Unicode filename causes UnicodeEncodeError if locale is ASCII)
 
 5.1 - December 2, 2011
     * Extensive, extensive unit test refactoring
diff --git a/feedparser/feedparser.py b/feedparser/feedparser.py
index 5c039a4..8ca8067 100644
--- a/feedparser/feedparser.py
+++ b/feedparser/feedparser.py
@@ -2979,7 +2979,11 @@ def _open_resource(url_file_stream_or_string, etag, modified, agent, referrer, h
     # try to open with native open function (if url_file_stream_or_string is a filename)
     try:
         return open(url_file_stream_or_string, 'rb')
-    except IOError:
+    except (IOError, UnicodeEncodeError):
+        # if url_file_stream_or_string is a unicode object that
+        # cannot be converted to the encoding returned by
+        # sys.getfilesystemencoding(), a UnicodeEncodeError
+        # will be thrown
         pass
 
     # treat url_file_stream_or_string as string