I Think it is a bug as for 1.99.4
When a form "tries" to keep values w/ non ascii characters
if form.accepts(request.vars,session, formname=sP, keepvalues=True):
File "C:\a\w2p\gluon\html.py", line 1801, in accepts
status = self._traverse(status,hideerror)
File "C:\a\w2p\gluon\html.py", line 743, in _traverse
newstatus = c._traverse(status,hideerror) and newstatus
File "C:\a\w2p\gluon\html.py", line 751, in _traverse
self._postprocessing()
File "C:\a\w2p\gluon\html.py", line 1585, in _postprocessing
_value = str(self['_value'])
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 0-8:
ordinal not in range(128)
Is str instruction ever needed? If yes - additional check for unicodes
with proper utf-8 conversion is needed just before.
IMHO str at 1585 is excessive - all is fine when deleted