Better handling of unicode() sources (they are first encoded into UTF-8)

tbroyer · tbroyer · commit 48f65a3bbe14 · 2007-06-19T14:19:20.000Z
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extra : convert_revision : svn%3Aacbfec75-9323-0410-a652-858a13e371e0/trunk%40766
diff --git a/src/inputstream.py b/src/inputstream.py
@@ -76,7 +76,9 @@ def openStream(self, source):
         if hasattr(source, 'read'):
             stream = source
         else:
-            # Otherwise treat source as a string and convert to a file object
+            # Otherwise treat source as a string and convert to a file object
+            if isinstance(source, unicode):
+                source = source.encode('utf-8')
             import cStringIO
             stream = cStringIO.StringIO(str(source))
         return stream
