fix unicode problem when a key/value dictionary contains unicode values

git-svn-id: http://freebase-python.googlecode.com/svn/trunk@221 5914aa95-5b3a-0410-a3b5-7b719e7fe9b2

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/freebase/uritemplate.py b/freebase/uritemplate.py
index 0a81147..516b0a5 100755
--- a/freebase/uritemplate.py
+++ b/freebase/uritemplate.py
@@ -66,6 +66,8 @@ def expand_uri_template(template, args):
     return URITemplate(template).run(args)
 
 def _uri_encode_var(v):
+    if isinstance(v, unicode):
+        v = v.encode('utf-8')
     return urllib.quote(v, safe="-_.~!$&'()*+,;=:/?[]#@")