Make template constructor accept unicode strings

Closes #244
tornadoweb · Apr 16, 2011 · 3ae6787 · 3ae6787
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diff --git a/tornado/template.py b/tornado/template.py
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ def __init__(self, template_string, name="<string>", loader=None,
         if compress_whitespace is None:
             compress_whitespace = name.endswith(".html") or \
                 name.endswith(".js")
-        reader = _TemplateReader(name, template_string)
+        reader = _TemplateReader(name, escape.utf8(template_string))
         self.file = _File(_parse(reader))
         self.code = self._generate_python(loader, compress_whitespace)
         try: