(Pinax) UTF Problem when publishing into Twitter

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Set up other services twitter account
2. Go to tweets
3. Write a message with utf characters like this 'ññ'
4. Publish and select Twitter

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

publish the text in microblogging and twitter. I see an UTF error.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?

Trunk. 

Please provide any additional information below.

I've solved editing the views.py, line 34

                twitter_account.PostUpdate( unicode( text ).encode( "utf-8") )

Original issue reported on code.google.com by antoniof...@gmail.com on 9 Jan 2011 at 10:36

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Curious, what are you using to authenticate the micro blogging, I was under the 
impression that only oauth could do it now, have any other changes been made to 
the microblogging app to authenticate it differently?

Original comment by Ben.Mis...@gmail.com on 23 Jan 2011 at 6:32