--- a/thirdparty/google_appengine/google/appengine/ext/bulkload/__init__.py	Tue Jan 20 01:12:43 2009 +0000
+++ b/thirdparty/google_appengine/google/appengine/ext/bulkload/__init__.py	Tue Jan 20 13:19:45 2009 +0000
@@ -401,6 +401,7 @@
         response code: integer HTTP response code to return
         output: string containing the HTTP response body
     """
+    data = data.encode('utf-8')
     Validate(kind, basestring)
     Validate(data, basestring)
     output = []