Unicode value

[Jason]

I have a form that I put a unicode character in one of the fields. I'm not sure what I am doing wrong:

I put the character "é" (http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/e9/index.htm) into the form field and save it.

The value in request.params shows u'Test Unicod\xc3\xa9' -- I think this should be u'Test Unicod\xe9' if it was properly decoded to utf-8. 

Is there somewhere I need to specify Pyramid to decode the posted values as UTF-8?

Thanks,

Jason

[Chris McDonough]

https://docs.pylonsproject.org/projects/pyramid/1.1/narr/views.html#handling-form-submissions-in-view-callables-unicode-and-character-set-issues

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[Jason]

Groovy. 

It looks like setting the charset class attribute of a request subclass is deprecated, yet the documentation advises this at https://docs.pylonsproject.org/projects/pyramid/1.1/narr/webob.html#unicode

Setting charset as an instance variable on my Request subclass instance worked though:

class RequestWithUser(Request):

    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):

         Request.__init__(self, *args, **kwargs)

         self.charset = 'utf-8'

And I had to switch to using webhelpers.util.html_escape instead of webhelpers.html.escape.

-- Jason