Template system now supports variables whose str() returns a Unicode object with non-ascii characters. Thanks, gabor

git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk@4161 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37

django/template/__init__.py

@@ -742,7 +742,11 @@ class VariableNode(Node):
     def encode_output(self, output):
         # Check type so that we don't run str() on a Unicode object
         if not isinstance(output, basestring):
+            try:
                 return str(output)
+            except UnicodeEncodeError:
+                # If __str__() returns a Unicode object, convert it to bytestring.
+                return unicode(output).encode(settings.DEFAULT_CHARSET)
         elif isinstance(output, unicode):
             return output.encode(settings.DEFAULT_CHARSET)
         else:

tests/regressiontests/templates/tests.py

@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 from django.conf import settings
 
 if __name__ == '__main__':
@@ -62,6 +63,11 @@ class OtherClass:
     def method(self):
         return "OtherClass.method"
 
+class UnicodeInStrClass:
+    "Class whose __str__ returns a Unicode object."
+    def __str__(self):
+        return u'ŠĐĆŽćžšđ'
+
 class Templates(unittest.TestCase):
     def test_templates(self):
         # NOW and NOW_tz are used by timesince tag tests.
@@ -173,6 +179,10 @@ class Templates(unittest.TestCase):
             # Empty strings can be passed as arguments to filters
             'basic-syntax36': (r'{{ var|join:"" }}', {'var': ['a', 'b', 'c']}, 'abc'),
 
+            # If a variable has a __str__() that returns a Unicode object, the value
+            # will be converted to a bytestring.
+            'basic-syntax37': (r'{{ var }}', {'var': UnicodeInStrClass()}, '\xc5\xa0\xc4\x90\xc4\x86\xc5\xbd\xc4\x87\xc5\xbe\xc5\xa1\xc4\x91'),
+
             ### COMMENT SYNTAX ########################################################
             'comment-syntax01': ("{# this is hidden #}hello", {}, "hello"),
             'comment-syntax02': ("{# this is hidden #}hello{# foo #}", {}, "hello"),