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by andredieb 5519 days ago
Is it me or it does not accept accents? I tried 'André' and server got sad.
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It seems to die on that. I'll look into it and roll out a fix as soon as the traffic dies down a bit.
awesome =/

seems like python's urllib doesn't do unicode encoding properly.

fyi, this is fixed now.