xbmcpidgin --host xmbc
ERROR:dbus.connection:Exception in handler for D-Bus signal:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/dbus/connection.py", line 230, in maybe_handle_message
    self._handler(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/xbmctools/pidgin.py", line 36, in receiveIM
    self._client.send_notification(title='%s says' % sender, message=html2text(message))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/xbmctools/pidgin.py", line 14, in html2text
    p.feed(html)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/sgmllib.py", line 104, in feed
    self.goahead(0)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/sgmllib.py", line 129, in goahead
    self.handle_data(rawdata[i:j])
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/htmllib.py", line 70, in handle_data
    self.formatter.add_flowing_data(data)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/formatter.py", line 195, in add_flowing_data
    self.writer.send_flowing_data(data)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/formatter.py", line 420, in send_flowing_data
    write(word)
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe1' in position 4: ordinal not in range(128)