[Cheetahtemplate-discuss] Cheetah and unicode

[Brian B. <bri...@se...>]

Is there any liklihood that a future version of Cheetah will be able to use
unicode strings directly, rather than encoding them itself.
Eg.
	from Cheetah import Template
	source=u"This is a unicode template with a $variable"
	namespace={u"variable":u"unicode \xa3string"}
	t=Template.Template(source=source, searchList=[namespace])
	output=str(t) # perhaps this should be:  output=unicode(t)
	print output
	print type(output)

This fails because Cheetah expects the "unicode \xa3string" to be able to be
encoded into ascii. Instead I would like the variable "output" to be of type
unicode instead of type str. At the moment I've encoded everything in utf-8
beforehand (or in a Filter) and then decoded it again at the end - but this
seems very inefficient.

(In case you're wondering, I'm looking at this because the output has to be
translated to different encodings depending on where it's going. The same
output may be latin-1 in a logfile but utf-8 in an email)

Thanks,
Brian