mattupstate/flask-security — pull request #88 by andreev-artem (2013-02-03 18:17:09+00:00)
Title: Password should be encoded as 'utf-8' before creating hmac to support passwords with non-latin symbols

I received UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u0439' in position 0: ordinal not in range(128) when I tried to use password with non-latin (russian) symbols.