urllib2 cannot make POST with utf-8 content

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BPO	14560
Nosy	@orsenthil, @ezio-melotti

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closed_at = <Date 2012-04-12.08:27:40.549>
created_at = <Date 2012-04-12.08:11:59.043>
labels = ['expert-unicode']
title = 'urllib2 cannot make POST with utf-8 content'
updated_at = <Date 2012-04-12.11:15:39.920>
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activity = <Date 2012-04-12.11:15:39.920>
actor = 'orsenthil'
assignee = 'none'
closed = True
closed_date = <Date 2012-04-12.08:27:40.549>
closer = '\xd0\x90\xd0\xbd\xd0\xb4\xd1\x80\xd0\xb5\xd0\xb9.\xd0\xa0'
components = ['Unicode']
creation = <Date 2012-04-12.08:11:59.043>
creator = '\xd0\x90\xd0\xbd\xd0\xb4\xd1\x80\xd0\xb5\xd0\xb9.\xd0\xa0'
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url = 'https://bugs.python.org/issue14560'
versions = ['Python 2.7']

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Issue can be found only in 2.7, in 2.6.6 it works

System:
Linux strix 3.2.14-1-ARCH x86_64
Python information:
Python 2.7.2 (default, Jan 31 2012, 13:19:49) [GCC 4.6.2 20120120 (prerelease)] on linux2

Snippet to reproduce error:

# -*- encoding: utf-8 -*-
import urllib2

request = urllib2.Request('http://google.com', u'Контент', {'Content-Type': 'text/plain; charset=utf-8'})
urllib2.urlopen(request).read()

Stacktrace:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 126, in urlopen
    return _opener.open(url, data, timeout)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 394, in open
    response = self._open(req, data)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 412, in _open
    '_open', req)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 372, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 1199, in http_open
    return self.do_open(httplib.HTTPConnection, req)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 1168, in do_open
    h.request(req.get_method(), req.get_selector(), req.data, headers)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 955, in request
    self._send_request(method, url, body, headers)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 989, in _send_request
    self.endheaders(body)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 951, in endheaders
    self._send_output(message_body)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 815, in _send_output
    self.send(message_body)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 787, in send
    self.sock.sendall(data)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/socket.py", line 224, in meth
    return getattr(self._sock,name)(*args)

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# -*- encoding: utf-8 -*-
import urllib2

request = urllib2.Request('http://google.com', u'Контент'.encode("utf-8"), {'Content-Type': 'text/plain; charset=utf-8'})
urllib2.urlopen(request).read()

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Sorry. My fault