Convert using utf-8 instead of ascii in safe_str()

This way we don't lose information and the returned string is
ascii-compatible anyway

Author: nicoddemus

_pytest/compat.py

@@ -240,4 +240,4 @@ def safe_str(v):
             if not isinstance(v, unicode):
                 v = unicode(v)
             errors = 'replace'
-            return v.encode('ascii', errors)
+            return v.encode('utf-8', errors)