Unicode messages in reply cause exception

When i send a reply string with unicode characters (for example the swedish caracters åäö) i get the following exception.

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/grok/.virtualenvs/botdev/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/mattermost_bot/dispatcher.py", line 66, in dispatch_msg
    func(Message(self._client, msg, self._pool), *args)
  File "/home/grok/code/fujitsu/matterbot/bot/cli.py", line 50, in quote_get
    message.reply(u"{}".format(data.get(str(id)), "No quote with ID: {0} exists in the database...".format(str(id))))
  File "/home/grok/.virtualenvs/botdev/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/mattermost_bot/dispatcher.py", line 174, in reply
    self.send(self._gen_reply(text))
  File "/home/grok/.virtualenvs/botdev/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/mattermost_bot/dispatcher.py", line 170, in _gen_reply
    return self._gen_at_message(text)
  File "/home/grok/.virtualenvs/botdev/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/mattermost_bot/dispatcher.py", line 166, in _gen_at_message
    return '@{}: {}'.format(self.get_username(), text)
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe5' in position 1: ordinal not in range(128)

The simplest solution i found was to change this line https://github.com/LPgenerator/mattermost_bot/blob/master/mattermost_bot/dispatcher.py#L166 to be the following: return u'@{}: {}'.format(self.get_username(), text) where the new string will be unicode.

[gotlium]

For Russian characters we are using following code

return '@{}: {}'.format(self.get_username(), 'Привет')

and all is working without any problems. why you are not use reply method?

[Grokzen]

Sorted this out. It was the data that was read from a file that was the root cause of this problem. When that was fixed, it worked as expected.