Unicode encode decode error in python email

Been bothered with these on and off errors in our application while sending email via python:
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/email/Generator.py", line 182, in handletext self._fp.write(payload)
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u2014' in position 4986: ordinal not in range(128)

The reason is that Python's email module needs some information about charset used when a MIMEText object is created.

Here is a link which explians how to solve this:
http://mg.pov.lt/blog/unicode-emails-in-python


Links to understand unicode in Python:

http://effbot.org/zone/unicode-objects.htm
http://www.amk.ca/python/howto/unicode