From 8d67f20bccc8f06c9615b1f57bad31517c230d73 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: schlatterbeck <schlatterbeck@57a73879-2fb5-44c3-a270-3262357dd7e2>
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2010 14:33:54 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] xmlrpc handling of unicode characters, see
 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.bug-tracking.roundup.user/10040

git-svn-id: http://svn.roundup-tracker.org/svnroot/roundup/roundup/trunk@4475 57a73879-2fb5-44c3-a270-3262357dd7e2
---
 CHANGES.txt       |  2 ++
 roundup/xmlrpc.py | 13 ++++++++++---
 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt
index 2bf2c33..da26da8 100644
--- a/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/CHANGES.txt
@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@ are given with the most recent entry first.
 
 Fixed:
 - Handle multiple @action values from broken trackers.
+- xmlrpc handling of unicode characters, see
+  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.bug-tracking.roundup.user/10040
 
 
 2010-02-23 1.5.0
diff --git a/roundup/xmlrpc.py b/roundup/xmlrpc.py
index b0495d0..88ddb34 100644
--- a/roundup/xmlrpc.py
+++ b/roundup/xmlrpc.py
@@ -34,10 +34,17 @@ def props_from_args(db, cl, args, itemid=None):
     for arg in args:
         if arg.find('=') == -1:
             raise UsageError, 'argument "%s" not propname=value'%arg
-        l = arg.split('=')
-        if len(l) < 2:
+        try :
+            key, value = arg.split('=', 1)
+        except ValueError :
             raise UsageError, 'argument "%s" not propname=value'%arg
-        key, value = l[0], '='.join(l[1:])
+        if isinstance (key, unicode) :
+            try :
+                key = key.encode ('ascii')
+            except UnicodeEncodeError:
+                raise UsageError, 'argument %r is no valid ascii keyword'%key
+        if isinstance (value, unicode) :
+            value = value.encode ('utf-8')
         if value:
             try:
                 props[key] = hyperdb.rawToHyperdb(db, cl, itemid,
-- 
2.30.2