Add proper unicode support to the source scanner

The assumption is that the only allowed source encoding
is utf-8. Always strings as unicode and fix up the transformer
and xml writer to properly output utf-8.

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/giscanner/transformer.py b/giscanner/transformer.py
index f07e8d17..4cd24484 100644
--- a/giscanner/transformer.py
+++ b/giscanner/transformer.py
@@ -608,7 +608,7 @@ raise ValueError."""
             return None
         if symbol.const_string is not None:
             typeval = ast.TYPE_STRING
-            value = symbol.const_string
+            value = unicode(symbol.const_string, 'utf-8')
         elif symbol.const_int is not None:
             typeval = ast.TYPE_INT
             value = '%d' % (symbol.const_int, )