This should be fixed in HTTPResponse, but to work around it,
please try

get_response().set_charset(str('utf8'))

or, call set_charset() outside of a template.


On Feb 25, 2005, at 11:09 AM, Leif K-Brooks wrote:

> I'm in the beginning stages of developing an application with Quixote
> 2. I'm trying to use Unicode in PTL templates, like this:
>
> def foo[html](self):
>    get_response().set_charset('utf8')
>    u'\N{INFINITY}'
>
> Unfortunately, it doesn't work. The error log has a long traceback
> that ends with this:
>
>  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/quixote/http_response.py",
> line 223, in _encode_chunk
>    return chunk.encode(self.charset)
> TypeError: encode() argument 1 must be string, not htmltext
>
> I know that Unicode support is pretty new in Quixote, so I'm hoping
> that this problem just hasn't been noticed yet and will get fixed
> soon. Am I correct?
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