id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,priority,milestone,component,version,resolution,keywords,cc
184,Assume UTF-8 as default encoding of template data (was: str encoding in input),brickenstein@…,cmlenz,"Hi!

I am experiencing problems with strings containing non-ascii characters in the input.

{{{
 --> parse stage: 20.0000 ms
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File ""run.py"", line 46, in <module>
    test()
  File ""run.py"", line 22, in test
    print tmpl.generate(**data).render(method='html')
  File ""/home/michael/Genshi-0.4.4/genshi/core.py"", line 154, in render
    return encode(generator, method=method, encoding=encoding)
  File ""/home/michael/Genshi-0.4.4/genshi/output.py"", line 45, in encode
    output = u''.join(list(iterator))
  File ""/home/michael/Genshi-0.4.4/genshi/output.py"", line 369, in __call__
    for kind, data, pos in stream:
  File ""/home/michael/Genshi-0.4.4/genshi/output.py"", line 618, in __call__
    for kind, data, pos in stream:
  File ""/home/michael/Genshi-0.4.4/genshi/output.py"", line 688, in __call__
    text = mjoin(textbuf, escape_quotes=False)
  File ""/home/michael/Genshi-0.4.4/genshi/core.py"", line 379, in join
    for item in seq]))
  File ""/home/michael/Genshi-0.4.4/genshi/core.py"", line 405, in escape
    text = unicode(text).replace('&', '&amp;') \
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 1: ordinal not in range(128)
}}}

I attach a patch, which solves the problem for me, but fixes the assumed encoding to 'utf-8'.
A better solution would be to have a variable assume_encoding, as in kid.

As an example, I attach a modified run.py of the examples/basic, where I replaced
<world>
by
Wörld

This ticket is related to
http://code.google.com/p/dbsprockets/issues/detail?id=54

Thank you very much in advance.
Best regards,
Michael",defect,new,major,0.9,General,0.4.4,,encoding,