Error in ini.py

[vampcoder]

Getting this error
ini.py:186: SyntaxWarning: name 'time1' is assigned to before global declaration
global time1
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "ini.py", line 210, in
main()
File "ini.py", line 48, in main
indicator.set_menu(build_menu())
File "ini.py", line 67, in build_menu
nlist = fill()
File "ini.py", line 87, in fill
extract_info("CF.ics",this_list)
File "ini.py", line 116, in extract_info
this_summary = str(component.get('summary'))
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 0-9: ordinal not in range(128)