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Paradoxically, a UnicodeDecodeError happens when _encoding_. The cause of it seems to be the encoding-specific encode() functions that normally expect a parameter of type unicode. It appears that on seeing an str parameter, the encode() functions "up-convert" it into unicode before applying their own encoding. It also appears that the "up-conversion" makes no assumption of str parameter's encoding, assuming it to be ascii. Hence a decoding failure inside an encoder.