Does gstreamer supports utf-8/unicode?

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Hello, i am writing a music player and i want to know if gstreamer supports
utf-8 and unicode because i have a problem here:

info = newitem.discover_uri("file://" + path)
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position
19-25: ordinal not in range(128)

the program is written in Python
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