On Jan 16, 2011, at 1:22 AM, carlo wrote: > >>>> r=TAG['pippo'](u'plutò') >>>> str(r) > '<pippo>plut\xc3\xb2</pippo>' >>>> r=TAG[u'pippo'](u'plutò') >>>> str(r) > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "<console>", line 1, in <module> > File "C:\Python26\web2py\gluon\html.py", line 797, in __str__ > return self.xml() > File "C:\Python26\web2py\gluon\html.py", line 790, in xml > return '<%s%s>%s</%s>' % (self.tag, fa, co, self.tag) > UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position > 4: ordinal > not in range(128)
The content of TAG is explicitly decoded, but the tag itself is not. I'm guessing that making the tag a unicode string is forcing a second decode of your content. Or something like that. Leave the tag itself a plain string.
