1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/quoins/controllers.py b/quoins/controllers.py
index f627c61..1f9e971 100644
--- a/quoins/controllers.py
+++ b/quoins/controllers.py
@@ -328,7 +328,10 @@ class BlogController(TGController):
         if obj is None:
             u = tg.url(self.path)
         elif isinstance(obj, basestring):
-            obj = urllib.quote(obj.encode('utf8'))
+            try:
+                obj.encode('ascii')
+            except:
+                obj = urllib.quote(obj.encode('utf8'))
             if obj.startswith('/'): obj = obj[1:]
             u = tg.url(os.path.join(self.path, obj))
         elif isinstance(obj, Post):