Python Hash MD5 Unicode

>>>from hashlib import md5 #this is just an example
>>>uFoo=u"why dòn't ìnsért sòme strànge chàrs? ù.ù"
>>>md5( uFoo.encode("utf-8") ).hexdigest()
'80a0d8c0e0a53e2e3a9edafa4f0b2c03'
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