Make template constructor accept unicode strings

Closes #244

diff --git a/tornado/template.py b/tornado/template.py
index 34dc0689e7b80beec673da438186caabc55b8a37..ff8bbba98f3ff152c24b488aefd163f1574ce047 100644 (file)
--- a/tornado/template.py
+++ b/tornado/template.py
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ class Template(object):
         if compress_whitespace is None:
             compress_whitespace = name.endswith(".html") or \
                 name.endswith(".js")
-        reader = _TemplateReader(name, template_string)
+        reader = _TemplateReader(name, escape.utf8(template_string))
         self.file = _File(_parse(reader))
         self.code = self._generate_python(loader, compress_whitespace)
         try: