I would not call this a bug because as a rule web2py supports only
utf8 strings. Yet sometime unicode works just fine.
I'd call this a suggestion for improvement and I will take a look into
it. I am sure It can be done.
Massimo
On Sep 30, 11:54 am, Clayton <clayton.grass...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The following crashes with ascii encoding error:
>
> @service.xml
> def test():
> return dict(test=u'K\u00E5')
>
> It fails with "UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode
> character u'\xe5' in position 1: ordinal not in range(128)" when the
> service is called.
>
> The following succeeds:
>
> @service.xml
> def test():
> return dict(test=u'K\u00E5'.encode('utf-8'))
>
> Now the DAL returns unicode strings just fine, but when I try to
> return them from a web service, it crashes due to this bug.
>
> The bug seems to be at line 21 of serializers.py as far as I can tell,
> as it doesn't deal with unicode type.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Clayton
