--- http_response.py-old	2005-08-21 16:53:11.000000000 +0200
+++ http_response.py	2005-08-21 16:50:40.000000000 +0200
@@ -220,10 +220,10 @@
     def _encode_chunk(self, chunk):
         """(chunk : str | unicode) -> str
         """
-        if self.charset == 'iso-8859-1' and isinstance(chunk, str):
-            return chunk # non-ASCII chars are okay
-        else:
+        if isinstance(chunk, unicode):
             return chunk.encode(self.charset)
+        else:
+            return chunk # non-ASCII chars are okay
 
     def _compress_body(self, body):
         """(body: str) -> str