[Cheetahtemplate-discuss] How to specify encoding in Cheetah templates

[deelan <de...@in...>]

hi there,

i'm playing around with PyGoogle, a wrapper around Google search API.
everything was going well, until webware gave me this traceback:

File "C:\Python\Lib\site-packages\Cheetah\Filters.py", line 106, in filter
     return str(val)
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character '\uc1' in 
position 0: ordinal not in range(128)


the template is very simple, this is the relevant  part:

<p>Search done in $_.data.meta.searchTime msec</p>

<dl>
#for $result in $_.data.results
   <dt>$result.title</dt>
   <dd>$result.summary</dd>
#end for
</dl>

basically the "title" and "summary" fields of the search result
contains characters (encoded in UTF-8?) outside ascii range and
cheetah chokes on them.

is there a simple way to tell cheetah to use a particular encoding
while displaying string? or must be managed bny python and should i put
some code on the servlet?

TIA,
deelan