diff --git a/buffpy/api.py b/buffpy/api.py
index 92e755e..cca7a28 100644
--- a/buffpy/api.py
+++ b/buffpy/api.py
@@ -54,6 +54,11 @@ def post(self, url, parser=None, **params):
 
     headers = {'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'}
 
+    #Check if posting data and if data is unicode, encoding it as utf-8
+    if 'data' in params and isinstance(params['data'], unicode):
+      params['data'] = params['data'].encode('utf-8')
+
+
     response = self.session.post(url=BASE_URL % url, headers=headers, **params)
 
     return parser(response.content)