I found the same issue. In fact, there seem to be a couple of these
lingering around Paste as well.
Is there any chance we can get these cleaned up soon? I will try and
find the other one-liners I hit upon.
Michael G. Noll wrote:
> It seems I discovered an issue with handling Unicode strings in the
> WebHelpers version 0.2.1 (Pylons 0.9.2) which causes problems with
> methods such as h.text_field().
>
> When testing with Japanese and other "exotic" characters, I ended up
> with error messages similar to:
>
> > Error(UnicodeEncodeError): 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in
> > position 0-7: ordinal not in range(128)
>
> I finally tracked down the cause of this problem to
> webhelpers/rails/tags.py [1], around line 77, which reads:
>
> > optionlist = ['%s="%s"' % (x, html_escape(str(y))) for x,y in
> > cleaned_options.iteritems()]
>
> where it should:
>
> > optionlist = ['%s="%s"' % (x, html_escape(y)) for x,y in
> > cleaned_options.iteritems()]
>
> html_escape() is located in webhelpers.util package [2], and it takes
> care of a) stringifying all non-string objects to strings and b)
> "properly" encoding Unicode strings into ASCII representations itself
> (basically, via "<unicode string>.encode('ascii',
> 'xmlcharrefreplace')").
>
> The str(y) call in tags.py's list comprehension is not so clever, and
> will break WebHelpers functions such as h.text_field() when called with
> Unicode strings as values. I checked whether the faulty line in tags.py
> has been corrected after 0.9.2 but it is still included in the trunk.
>
> Michael
>
> Note: I admit that I'm not sure whether the "issue" described above is
> rather a feature, and not a bug. :-)
>
> [1] http://pylonshq.com/svn/WebHelpers/trunk/webhelpers/rails/tags.py
> [2] http://pylonshq.com/svn/WebHelpers/trunk/webhelpers/util.py
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