antzucaro/XonStat — comment on commit e8fdb37d3c9d3651a5b418692ac92460e1fd7182
File: xonstat/views/submission.py line 423
By dmazary:

Well more accurately it first encodes as utf-8, then decodes any characters in div's unicode range 0xe000-0xe0ff to ascii.

Also, ascii is a subset of unicode, so converting to ascii then unicode would result in data loss.