I did a little more messing around with Unicode over the weekend.  I now have a
grand total of two PTL test cases:

    def freddie [html] (request):
        u'Fr\xe9ddie Kr\xfcger'

    def freddie2 [html] (request):
        u'Fr\xe9ddie Kr\xfcger'
        '
'
        u'Freddie Krueger'
        '
'
        request.response.set_encoding(str("iso-8859-1"))

I got stuck on this because I couldn't figure out how to remove the str() call
from the second function.  When I do, Quixote complains:

    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "/Users/skip/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/quixote/publish.py",
line 543, in publish
        output = self.process_request(request, env)
      File "/Users/skip/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/quixote/publish.py",
line 525, in process_request
        output = self.try_publish(request, env.get('PATH_INFO', ''))
      File "/Users/skip/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/quixote/publish.py",
line 482, in try_publish
        output = output.asstring(encoding)
      File "/Users/skip/local/lib/python2.4/site-
packages/quixote/_py_htmltext.py", line 73, in asstring
        return self.s.encode(encoding)
    TypeError: encode() argument 1 must be string, not htmltext

Do I have to call str() around any string I want to pass to a regular Python
function, or did I muff something?  I spun my wheels over the weekend under
the assumption that I made a mistake, but will gladly move onto something else
if someone says, "that's just the way Quixote works", or points out the bug in
my Unicode diff at .

Thx,

Skip