Why am I Getting Errors When I Have Special Characters in the LDAP Configuration in Ansible Tower?

Issue

Trying to put special characters in the LDAP configuration via Tower UI or API will result in an error. For example, a mapping like the following:

{
 "Team2-tower": {
  "organization": "Test",
  "users": "CN=Test_Opérationnel,OU=***,DC=***,DC=***",
  "remove": true
 }

Note the special character é in Test_Opérationnel.

With the above, we get the following stack in Tower logs:

UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe9' in position 14: ordinal not in range(128)