[Answer]-Django/Python encoding – ''ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc5 in position 52'

On Linux, make sure you install language-pack-xx package, e.g.

sudo apt-get install language-pack-en

in order to provide English translation data updates for all supported packages (including Python).

Then make sure to set your locale settings right before running your script from the terminal, e.g.

$ locale -a | grep "^en_.\+UTF-8"
en_GB.UTF-8
en_US.UTF-8
$ export LC_ALL=en_GB.UTF-8
$ export LANG=en_GB.UTF-8

Docs: man locale, man setlocale.