Unicode and UTF-8

Hello!

My templates are UTF-8-encoded. If I fill a variable with an 
unicode-value -- inside the template -- then Cheetah gives back a false 
encoded value. My english is not good. I don't know, how I could explain 
it better.

Here's a simple example, which demonstrates it:


     #!/usr/bin/env python
     #coding: utf-8

     from Cheetah.Template import Template

     source = """#encoding utf-8
     #set $unicode_value = u"Österreich"
     $unicode_value
     """

     template = Template(source = source)
     print repr(template.respond())

     # -->                 u'\xc3\x96sterreich\n'
     # Shouldn't it be be: u'\xd6sterreich\n'?


This string u'\xc3\x96sterreich\n' is not unicode. It is UTF-8, which 
thinks that it is unicode.

What can I do?

Regards,
Gerold
:-)

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