[svn r3755] r4371@delle: sbehnel | 2008-05-26 09:37:29 +0200

 let lxml.html.diff serialise unicode strings instead of UTF-8 encoded byte strings

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branch : trunk

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/src/lxml/html/diff.py b/src/lxml/html/diff.py
index 3b3ad8e7..7344b5ca 100644
--- a/src/lxml/html/diff.py
+++ b/src/lxml/html/diff.py
@@ -750,12 +750,12 @@ def serialize_html_fragment(el, skip_outer=False):
     """
     assert not isinstance(el, basestring), (
         "You should pass in an element, not a string like %r" % el)
-    html = etree.tostring(el, method="html", encoding="UTF-8")
+    html = etree.tostring(el, method="html", encoding=_unicode)
     if skip_outer:
         # Get rid of the extra starting tag:
-        html = html[html.find('>'.encode("ASCII"))+1:]
+        html = html[html.find('>')+1:]
         # Get rid of the extra end tag:
-        html = html[:html.rfind('<'.encode("ASCII"))]
+        html = html[:html.rfind('<')]
         return html.strip()
     else:
         return html