diff --git a/boto/s3/connection.py b/boto/s3/connection.py
index 6893c30965..906915f306 100644
--- a/boto/s3/connection.py
+++ b/boto/s3/connection.py
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@
 from boto.s3.key import Key
 from boto.resultset import ResultSet
 from boto.exception import BotoClientError, S3ResponseError
+from boto.utils import get_utf8able_str
 
 
 def check_lowercase_bucketname(n):