title: UnicodeEncodeError with xlrd
body: <p>I'm trying to read a .xlsx with xlrd. I have everything set up and working. It works for data with normal English letters as well as numbers. However when it gets to Swedish letters (ÄÖÅ) it gives me this error:</p>
  
  <pre><code>print str(sheet.cell_value(1, 2)) + " " + str(sheet.cell_value(1, 3)) + " " + str(sheet.cell_value(1, 4)) + " " + str(sheet.cell_value(1, 5))
  UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xd6' in position 1: ordinal not in range(128)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>My code:</p>
  
  <pre><code># -*- coding: cp1252 -*-
  import xlrd
  
  file_location = "test.xlsx"
  
  workbook = xlrd.open_workbook(file_location)
  sheet = workbook.sheet_by_index(0)
  
  print str(sheet.cell_value(1, 2)) + " " + str(sheet.cell_value(1, 3)) + " " + str(sheet.cell_value(1, 4)) + " " + str(sheet.cell_value(1, 5))
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I've even tried:</p>
  
  <pre><code>workbook = xlrd.open_workbook("test.xlsx", encoding_override="utf-8")
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>as well as:</p>
  
  <pre><code>workbook = xlrd.open_workbook("test.xlsx", encoding="utf-8")
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Edit: I'm running Python 2.7 on a Windows 7 64-bit computer.</p>