From 5ae50772751967272147f30e9e4f6519ecc2059d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Thomas Kluyver <takowl@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2012 23:13:46 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Add test for writing non-ascii characters to file with %hist.

---
 IPython/core/tests/test_history.py | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/IPython/core/tests/test_history.py b/IPython/core/tests/test_history.py
index 5b485cfefd7..99f3a8333f8 100644
--- a/IPython/core/tests/test_history.py
+++ b/IPython/core/tests/test_history.py
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
 
 # stdlib
 import os
+import shutil
 import sys
 import tempfile
 import unittest
@@ -51,6 +52,14 @@ def test_history():
             # Check whether specifying a range beyond the end of the current
             # session results in an error (gh-804)
             ip.magic('%hist 2-500')
+            
+            # Check that we can write non-ascii characters to a file
+            tmpdir = tempfile.mkdtemp()
+            try:
+                ip.magic("%%hist -f %s" % os.path.join(tmpdir, "test1"))
+                ip.magic("%%save %s 1-10" % os.path.join(tmpdir, "test2"))
+            finally:
+                shutil.rmtree(tmpdir)
 
             # New session
             ip.history_manager.reset()