Switch handling of non-Unicode responses to treat them as byte streams

rather than ASCII strings.

Author: Zach Lowry

test/lrs_response_test.py

@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+# coding=utf-8
+#
 #    Copyright 2014 Rustici Software
 #
 #    Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
@@ -129,6 +131,15 @@ def test_setters(self):
         self.assertIsInstance(resp.response, httplib.HTTPResponse)
         self.assertEqual(resp.response, web_resp)
 
+    def test_unicode(self):
+        resp = LRSResponse()
+        resp.data = "\xce\xb4\xce\xbf\xce\xba\xce\xb9\xce\xbc\xce\xae " \
+                    "\xcf\x80\xce\xb5\xcf\x81\xce\xb9\xce\xb5\xcf\x87\xce\xbf\xce\xbc\xce\xad\xce\xbd\xce\xbf\xcf\x85"
+
+        self.assertIsInstance(resp, LRSResponse)
+        self.assertIsInstance(resp.data, unicode)
+        self.assertEqual(resp.data, u"δοκιμή περιεχομένου")
+
     def test_setters_none(self):
         resp = LRSResponse()
 

tincan/lrs_response.py

@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ def data(self, value):
         :type value: unicode
         """
         if value is not None and not isinstance(value, unicode):
-            unicode(value)
+            value = value.decode('utf-8')
         self._data = value
 
     @property