Fix issue #89 and encoding

Tested on Windows 7 with Python 3.3 and the packages  `requests`, `setuptools` and `pip` from [~gohlke/pythonlibs](http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/)'s executable installers. See about in "[How to install pip on Windows?](http://stackoverflow.com/a/12476379)".

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References for 06d0426:
- [Python Requests throwing up SSLError](http://stackoverflow.com/a/10668173)

References for  31cb6d7:
- [Using Markdown as a Python Library](http://pythonhosted.org//Markdown/reference.html#text)
- [Unicode in Flask](http://flask.pocoo.org/docs/0.10/unicode/#encoding-and-decoding-yourself)