bugfix for issue #30

Author: ikirudennis

tests/test_github_issues.py

@@ -79,3 +79,9 @@ def parseWapProfile(self, url):
 
 \t<p>Of course there&#8217;s a lot more error handling to do (and useful data to glean off the <a href="XML"><span class="caps">XML</span></a>), but being able to cut through all the usual parsing crap is immensely gratifying.</p>""")
     assert result == expect
+
+def test_github_issue_30():
+    text ='"Tëxtíle (Tëxtíle)":http://lala.com'
+    result = textile.textile(text)
+    expect = '\t<p><a href="http://lala.com" title="Tëxtíle">Tëxtíle</a></p>'
+    assert result == expect

textile/utils.py

@@ -57,17 +57,17 @@ def generate_tag(tag, content, attributes=None):
     if not tag:
         return content
     # FIXME: Kind of an ugly hack.  There *must* be a cleaner way.  I tried
-    # adding text by assigning it to a.text.  That results in non-ascii text
-    # being html-entity encoded.  Not bad, but not entirely matching
-    # php-textile either.
+    # adding text by assigning it to element_tag.text.  That results in
+    # non-ascii text being html-entity encoded.  Not bad, but not entirely
+    # matching php-textile either.
     try:
-        element_tag = ElementTree.tostringlist(element, encoding=enc,
-                method='html')
+        element_tag = [v.decode(enc) for v in ElementTree.tostringlist(element,
+            encoding=enc, method='html')]
         element_tag.insert(len(element_tag) - 1, content)
         element_text = ''.join(element_tag)
     except AttributeError:
         # Python 2.6 doesn't have the tostringlist method, so we have to treat
-        # it different.
+        # it differently.
         element_tag = ElementTree.tostring(element, encoding=enc)
         element_text = re.sub(r"<\?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'\?>\n",
                 '', element_tag)