From b68263fb652172c5dd74bb7a1c99f0c1230d76bc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Xavier Ordoquy
Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2012 01:11:09 +0100
Subject: Default encoding should probably be latin-1 as some RFC seems to
 imply it.

---
 rest_framework/authentication.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'rest_framework/authentication.py')

diff --git a/rest_framework/authentication.py b/rest_framework/authentication.py
index d283959d..15e531bf 100644
--- a/rest_framework/authentication.py
+++ b/rest_framework/authentication.py
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ class BasicAuthentication(BaseAuthentication):
             auth = request.META['HTTP_AUTHORIZATION'].split()
             if len(auth) == 2 and auth[0].lower() == "basic":
                 try:
-                    auth_parts = base64.b64decode(auth[1].encode('utf8')).decode('utf8').partition(':')
+                    auth_parts = base64.b64decode(auth[1].encode('iso-8859-1')).decode('iso-8859-1').partition(':')
                 except TypeError:
                     return None
 
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