beware the unicode devil (bug 604857)

apps/paypal/__init__.py

@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ import urllib
 import urlparse
 
 from django.conf import settings
+from django.utils.http import urlencode
 
 
 def check_paypal_id(name):
@@ -21,7 +22,7 @@ def check_paypal_id(name):
              method='BMCreateButton',
              l_buttonvar0='business=%s' % name)
     with socket_timeout(10):
-        r = urllib.urlopen(settings.PAYPAL_API_URL, urllib.urlencode(d))
+        r = urllib.urlopen(settings.PAYPAL_API_URL, urlencode(d))
     response = dict(urlparse.parse_qsl(r.read()))
     valid = response['ACK'] == 'Success'
     msg = None if valid else response['L_LONGMESSAGE0']

apps/paypal/tests.py

@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+from cStringIO import StringIO
+
+import mock
+from nose.tools import eq_
+
+import paypal
+
+
+@mock.patch('paypal.urllib.urlopen')
+def test_check_paypal_id(urlopen_mock):
+    urlopen_mock.return_value = StringIO('ACK=Success')
+    val = paypal.check_paypal_id(u'\u30d5\u30a9\u30af\u3059\u3051')
+    eq_(val, (True, None))