Re: Can a handler return UTF-8?

On Aug 18, 2005, at 11:06 AM, Hamish Lawson wrote:

> The template engine I'm using (Kid) generates a string encoded in
> UTF-8. But if my handler function returns that to Quoxote I get a
> "UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode..." error. Wrapping
> the output in "unicode()" cures this, but is there some way I can tell
> Quixote to accept UTF-8? Or is it the case that it only accepts
> ASCII-encoded strings or Unicode strings?

Yes, it only accepts unicode or ASCII
(unless your response charset is iso-8859-1).
You can decode your string to unicode or
replace HTTPResponse._encode_chunk() if
you want different behavior.