Encode response message as utf-8

Signed-off-by: Ivan Kanakarakis <ivan.kanak@gmail.com>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/src/saml2/httputil.py b/src/saml2/httputil.py
index d0dcd287..dbba7d41 100644
--- a/src/saml2/httputil.py
+++ b/src/saml2/httputil.py
@@ -62,10 +62,7 @@ class Response(object):
             message = mte.render(**argv)
 
         if isinstance(message, six.string_types):
-            # Note(JP): A WSGI app should always respond
-            # with bytes, so at this point the message should
-            # become encoded instead of passing a text object.
-            return [message.encode()]
+            return [message.encode('utf-8')]
         elif isinstance(message, six.binary_type):
             return [message]
         else: