From d16ad52a5617732fa1fb20a7e1b9a4a1826e9d4b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: mdipierro <massimo.dipierro@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2012 21:07:47 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] fixed issue 1132, unicode in IS_IN_DB validator

---
 VERSION             | 2 +-
 gluon/validators.py | 5 ++++-
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index ca8041e6..b4ce309c 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Version 2.2.1 (2012-11-01 21:01:40) stable
+Version 2.2.1 (2012-11-01 21:07:42) stable
diff --git a/gluon/validators.py b/gluon/validators.py
index 0280126a..37cbc781 100644
--- a/gluon/validators.py
+++ b/gluon/validators.py
@@ -575,7 +575,10 @@ class IS_NOT_IN_DB(Validator):
         self.record_id = id
 
     def __call__(self, value):
-        value = str(value)
+        if isinstance(value,unicode):
+            value = value.encode('utf8')
+        else:
+            value = str(value)
         if not value.strip():
             return (value, translate(self.error_message))
         if value in self.allowed_override: