# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
from flask import Flask, send_file
app = Flask(__name__)
@app.route("/")
def hello():
    fn = 'é.py'
    # alternate value
    # fn = '\xc3\xa9.py'
    return send_file('hello.py', as_attachment=True, attachment_filename=fn)

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/remyroy/VirtualEnvs/TestingFlask/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/flask/app.py", line 2292, in wsgi_app
    response = self.full_dispatch_request()
  File "/home/remyroy/VirtualEnvs/TestingFlask/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/flask/app.py", line 1815, in full_dispatch_request
    rv = self.handle_user_exception(e)
  File "/home/remyroy/VirtualEnvs/TestingFlask/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/flask/app.py", line 1718, in handle_user_exception
    reraise(exc_type, exc_value, tb)
  File "/home/remyroy/VirtualEnvs/TestingFlask/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/flask/app.py", line 1813, in full_dispatch_request
    rv = self.dispatch_request()
  File "/home/remyroy/VirtualEnvs/TestingFlask/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/flask/app.py", line 1799, in dispatch_request
    return self.view_functions[rule.endpoint](**req.view_args)
  File "/home/remyroy/Projects/TestingFlask/hello.py", line 10, in hello
    return send_file('hello.py', as_attachment=True, attachment_filename=fn)
  File "/home/remyroy/VirtualEnvs/TestingFlask/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/flask/helpers.py", line 567, in send_file
    attachment_filename = attachment_filename.encode('latin-1')
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)