This doesn't seem to be the right fix, I'm hitting the exact same issue with WMA unicode tags, the right issue seems to be sanitazing the element before the call to str(), I won't pretend to have a clue about python, but using unicode() instead of str() fixes the problem for me.
Cheers, -- Niv Sardi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]