Can't use unicode objects to construct a template

[nkantrowitz <kantrn@…>]

A simple test case:

In [0]: from genshi.template.text import TextTemplate

In [1]: TextTemplate(u'a\u00c4b')
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exceptions.UnicodeEncodeError                        Traceback (most recent call last)

/Users/coderanger/Documents/Work/OLPC/gamejam/<ipython console> 

/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.4/lib/python2.4/site-packages/Genshi-0.4.1-py2.4.egg/genshi/template/base.py in __init__(self, source, basedir, filename, loader, encoding, lookup)

/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.4/lib/python2.4/site-packages/Genshi-0.4.1-py2.4.egg/genshi/template/text.py in _parse(self, source, encoding)

/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.4/lib/python2.4/encodings/utf_8.py in decode(input, errors)
     14 
     15 def decode(input, errors='strict'):
---> 16     return codecs.utf_8_decode(input, errors, True)
     17 
     18 class StreamWriter(codecs.StreamWriter):

UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xc4' in position 1: ordinal not in range(128)

[cboos]

Proposed fix

[cmlenz]

Patch applied in [616], ported to 0.4.x in [617].