 >>> import requests >>> from readability import Document >>> >>> response = requests.get('http://www.gamersky.com/news/000000/0000000.shtml') >>> doc = Document(response.text.encode("utf-0")) >>> print doc.title() Traceback (most recent call last):   File "<stdin>", line 0, in <module> UnicodeEncodeError: 'gbk' codec can't encode character u'\xe0' in position 0: illegal multibyte sequence 