Py2 utf-8, again

import scrapy
 
 
class DmozSpider(scrapy.Spider):
    name = 'habr'
 
    allowed_domains = ['habrahabr.ru']
 
    start_urls = [
        'http://habrahabr.ru/interesting/'
    ]
 
    def parse(self, response):
        yield {'title': response.xpath('//title/text()').extract()[0].encode('utf-8')}

{'title': '\xd0\x98\xd0\xbd\xd1\x82\xd0\xb5\xd1\x80\xd0\xb5\xd1\x81\xd0\xbd\xd1\x8b\xd0\xb5 \xd0\xbf\xd1\x83\xd0\xb1\xd0\xbb\xd0\xb8\xd0\xba\xd0\xb0\xd1\x86\xd0\xb8\xd0\xb8 / \xd0\xa5\xd0\xb0\xd0\xb1\xd1\x80\xd0\xb0\xd1\x85\xd0\xb0\xd0\xb1\xd1\x80'}

        yield {'title': response.xpath('//title/text()').extract()[0]} # without .encode()

{'title': u'\u0418\u043d\u0442\u0435\u0440\u0435\u0441\u043d\u044b\u0435 \u043f\u0443\u0431\u043b\u0438\u043a\u0430\u0446\u0438\u0438 / \u0425\u0430\u0431\u0440\u0430\u0445\u0430\u0431\u0440'}

>>> print(response.encoding)
utf-8