ElementTree and utf-16 encoding

[Fredrik Lundh]

Sébastien Boisgérault wrote:

> ET being ElementTree in the following code, could anyone explain
> why it fails ?

I'm afraid the standard serializer in 1.2 only supports ASCII-compatible 
encodings.  this will be fixed in 1.3.

as a workaround, you can do:

     tostring(elem).decode("utf-8").encode("utf-16")

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