From 07b83e912a69a7de64a1855989142c22be71d083 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Maceo Woodward <maceowoodward@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2011 03:43:05 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] In translate() function, changed text to be translated in
 parameters dictionary to UTF-8 encoding. Conversion is needed to allow
 Japanese strings to be passed to urlencode().

---
 __init__.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/__init__.py b/__init__.py
index e9e6d18..fb78cdf 100644
--- a/__init__.py
+++ b/__init__.py
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ def translate(self, text, to_lang, from_lang=None,
             supported category is "general".
         """
         params = {
-            'text': text,
+            'text': text.encode('utf8'),
             'to': to_lang,
             'contentType': content_type,
             'category': category,