diff --git a/CREDITS.txt b/CREDITS.txt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..ed410ee2f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/CREDITS.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+Thanks to...
+
+Jesper Noehr & the django-piston contributors for providing the starting point for this project.
+Paul Bagwell - Suggestions & bugfixes.
diff --git a/djangorestframework/modelresource.py b/djangorestframework/modelresource.py
index a9605d4ac..2b0e719c7 100644
--- a/djangorestframework/modelresource.py
+++ b/djangorestframework/modelresource.py
@@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ class ModelResource(Resource):
                 if inspect.ismethod(f) and len(inspect.getargspec(f)[0]) == 1:
                     ret = _any(f())
             else:
-                ret = str(thing)  # TRC  TODO: Change this back!
+                ret = unicode(thing)  # TRC  TODO: Change this back!
 
             return ret
 
diff --git a/djangorestframework/parsers.py b/djangorestframework/parsers.py
index 0d5121e92..f48f2f59d 100644
--- a/djangorestframework/parsers.py
+++ b/djangorestframework/parsers.py
@@ -118,3 +118,12 @@ class FormParser(BaseParser):
         return data
 
 
+# TODO: Allow parsers to specify multiple media types
+class MultipartParser(FormParser):
+    """The default parser for multipart form data.
+    Return a dict containing a single value for each non-reserved parameter.
+    """
+    
+    media_type = 'multipart/form-data'
+
+
diff --git a/djangorestframework/resource.py b/djangorestframework/resource.py
index c743ce8fa..b1f48f069 100644
--- a/djangorestframework/resource.py
+++ b/djangorestframework/resource.py
@@ -42,7 +42,8 @@ class Resource(ParserMixin, FormValidatorMixin, OverloadedContentMixin, Overload
     # List of content-types the resource can read from
     parsers = ( parsers.JSONParser,
                 parsers.XMLParser,
-                parsers.FormParser )
+                parsers.FormParser,
+                parsers.MultipartParser )
     
     # List of all authenticating methods to attempt
     authenticators = ( authenticators.UserLoggedInAuthenticator,