id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,priority,component,severity,resolution,keywords,cc
59,Load yaml data as utf-8 strings into a dictionary,dukebody@…,xi,"Hello, I'm looking for support, but I don't know if this is the right place to ask.

I'm using PyYAML to load some nested data from an utf-8 encoded file in Python with:

{{{
import yaml
stream=file('data.yaml','r')
data=yaml.load(stream)
}}}

The data variable becomes a dictionary with unicode values where is needed. What I want is to put utf-8 strings instead of unicode values to use this data with another library: Cheetah. If I try to use the unicode-type dictionary generated by default with PyYAML I get an `UnicodeDecodeError`, because de Cheetah strings are in iso-8859-15 and Python tries to decode them to Unicode using ASCII charset tables, so it obiously fails.

Is there any way to get an utf-8 coded dictionary?",defect,closed,normal,pyyaml,normal,worksforme,,