diff --git a/compressor/__init__.py b/compressor/__init__.py
index 6375727..6bc3ba0 100644
--- a/compressor/__init__.py
+++ b/compressor/__init__.py
@@ -80,7 +80,9 @@ class Compressor(object):
         return self._hunks
 
     def concat(self):
-        return "\n".join(self.hunks)
+        # if any of the hunks are unicode, all of them will be coerced
+        # this breaks any hunks with non-ASCII data in them
+        return "\n".join([str(hunk) for hunk in self.hunks])
 
     def filter(self, content, method, **kwargs):
         content = content
diff --git a/compressor/filters/css_default.py b/compressor/filters/css_default.py
index 46f27c3..1337cef 100644
--- a/compressor/filters/css_default.py
+++ b/compressor/filters/css_default.py
@@ -38,4 +38,4 @@ class CssMediaFilter(FilterBase):
             self.media = elem['media']
         except (TypeError, KeyError):
             return self.content
-        return "@media %s {%s}" % (self.media, self.content)
+        return "@media %s {%s}" % (str(self.media), self.content)
diff --git a/tests/core/tests.py b/tests/core/tests.py
index 482bfb1..30d7132 100644
--- a/tests/core/tests.py
+++ b/tests/core/tests.py
@@ -136,7 +136,6 @@ class CssMediaTestCase(TestCase):
         out = u'@media screen {body { background:#990; }}\n@media print {p { border:5px solid green;}}\n@media all {body { color:#fff; }}'
         self.assertEqual(out, self.cssNode.combined)
 
-
 class TemplatetagTestCase(TestCase):
     def setUp(self):
         settings.COMPRESS = True
@@ -163,11 +162,12 @@ class TemplatetagTestCase(TestCase):
 
     def test_nonascii_css_tag(self):
         template = u"""{% load compress %}{% compress css %}
-        <link rel="stylesheet" href="{{ MEDIA_URL }}css/nonasc.css" type="text/css" charset="utf-8">
+        <link rel="stylesheet" href="{{ MEDIA_URL }}css/nonasc.css" type="text/css" media="print" charset="utf-8">
+        <style type="text/css">p { border:5px solid green;}</style>
         {% endcompress %}
         """
         context = { 'MEDIA_URL': settings.MEDIA_URL }
-        out = '<link rel="stylesheet" href="/media/CACHE/css/fc35bb10bce9.css" type="text/css" media="all" charset="utf-8">'
+        out = '<link rel="stylesheet" href="/media/CACHE/css/68da639dbb24.css" type="text/css" media="all" charset="utf-8">'
         self.assertEqual(out, self.render(template, context))
 
     def test_js_tag(self):
diff --git a/tests/media/css/nonasc.css b/tests/media/css/nonasc.css
index 2afa456..43159ab 100644
--- a/tests/media/css/nonasc.css
+++ b/tests/media/css/nonasc.css
@@ -1,2 +1 @@
-p { background: url( '../../images/test.png' ); }
 .byline:before { content: " —  "; }
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/tests/media/css/url/nonasc.css b/tests/media/css/url/nonasc.css
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2afa456
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/media/css/url/nonasc.css
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+p { background: url( '../../images/test.png' ); }
+.byline:before { content: " —  "; }
\ No newline at end of file