From 2deb31d0968c77f40c63e0ffb9f655e69fbe1d96 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: yetist <yetist@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2012 11:39:24 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] support utf8 description

---
 djangorestframework/views.py | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/djangorestframework/views.py b/djangorestframework/views.py
index 3657fd645..4aa6ca0cd 100644
--- a/djangorestframework/views.py
+++ b/djangorestframework/views.py
@@ -156,6 +156,9 @@ class View(ResourceMixin, RequestMixin, ResponseMixin, AuthMixin, DjangoView):
 
         description = _remove_leading_indent(description)
 
+        if not isinstance(description, unicode):
+            description = description.decode('UTF-8')
+
         if html:
             return self.markup_description(description)
         return description