Non-ascii characters in new workshop form cause 500 error

[gerboland]

In the New Workshop form, If I enter a non-ascii character like æßð into the name or description text boxes, it causes a 500 error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/gerry/dev/play/pythonireland/broadgauge/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/web/application.py", line 239, in process
return self.handle()
File "/home/gerry/dev/play/pythonireland/broadgauge/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/web/application.py", line 230, in handle
return self._delegate(fn, self.fvars, args)
File "/home/gerry/dev/play/pythonireland/broadgauge/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/web/application.py", line 462, in _delegate
return handle_class(cls)
File "/home/gerry/dev/play/pythonireland/broadgauge/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/web/application.py", line 438, in handle_class
return tocall(_args)
File "/home/gerry/dev/play/pythonireland/broadgauge/broadgauge/views/orgs.py", line 86, in POST
i = web.input()
File "/home/gerry/dev/play/pythonireland/broadgauge/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/web/webapi.py", line 334, in input
return storify(out, *requireds, *_defaults)
File "/home/gerry/dev/play/pythonireland/broadgauge/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/web/utils.py", line 161, in storify
value = getvalue(value)
File "/home/gerry/dev/play/pythonireland/broadgauge/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/web/utils.py", line 150, in getvalue
return unicodify(x)
File "/home/gerry/dev/play/pythonireland/broadgauge/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/web/utils.py", line 141, in unicodify
if _unicode and isinstance(s, str): return to_unicode(s)
File "/home/gerry/dev/play/pythonireland/broadgauge/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/web/utils.py", line 348, in safeunicode
return obj.decode(encoding)
File "/home/gerry/dev/play/pythonireland/broadgauge/lib/python2.7/encodings/utf_8.py", line 16, in decode
return codecs.utf_8_decode(input, errors, True)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xf0 in position 0: unexpected end of data

[jvalinas]

In Progress.

[gerboland]

Note this may be a hard fix, as it appears to be happening in the web.py module. Good luck!