Ensure twitter status messages are utf-8 encoded

diff --git a/posttotwitter.py b/posttotwitter.py
index 3b79d1a88ba6643f8539d031f7f195c6c4dd5aaf..146ff9dc7f74955fce02d24d0669ae62b8be0ff7 100755 (executable)
--- a/posttotwitter.py
+++ b/posttotwitter.py
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ class PostToTwitter(TwitterClient):
                Actually make a post to twitter!
                """
                ret_dict =self.twitter_request('statuses/update.json', 'POST', {
-                               'status': msg,
+                               'status': msg.encode('utf-8'),
                                })
 
                if ret_dict.has_key('created_at'):