From 2bf5f6305030d5ebbd5a8a0fd5c31586c08a558d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Igor Kalat
Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2013 13:43:45 +0200
Subject: Make browsable API views play nice with utf-8

---
 rest_framework/utils/formatting.py | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

(limited to 'rest_framework/utils')

diff --git a/rest_framework/utils/formatting.py b/rest_framework/utils/formatting.py
index ebadb3a6..a2a5609c 100644
--- a/rest_framework/utils/formatting.py
+++ b/rest_framework/utils/formatting.py
@@ -24,6 +24,11 @@ def _remove_leading_indent(content):
     Remove leading indent from a block of text.
     Used when generating descriptions from docstrings.
     """
+    try:
+        content = content.decode('utf-8')
+    except (AttributeError, UnicodeEncodeError):
+        pass  # the string should keep the default 'ascii' encoding in
+              # Python 2.x or stay a unicode string in Python 3.x
     whitespace_counts = [len(line) - len(line.lstrip(' '))
                          for line in content.splitlines()[1:] if line.lstrip()]
 
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