Generating report containing UTF-8 values

[georgms]

I am trying to write a CSV report that contains UTF-8 values in the dimension values (specifically ga:searchKeyword).

Generating the report works fine using

report = unicode(query.serialize(format='ascii', with_metadata=False))

However, trying to use the CSV format with

report = unicode(query.serialize(format='csv', with_metadata=False))

will result in the error

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "google-analytics.py", line 59, in <module>
    report = unicode(query.serialize(format='csv', with_metadata=False))
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/googleanalytics/query.py", line 240, in serialize
    writer.writerows(self.rows)
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xfc' in position 14: ordinal not in range(128)

Sadly I'm am pretty inexperienced in Python. I've already tried adding # encoding: utf-8 to google-analytics.py with no success.

Am I using it wrong? How can I generate a CSV report where the values contain UTF-8 characters?