UnicodeEncodeError creating a team that contains non-ASCII on name via API

[Ursula Junque]

As seen on OOPS-1689S533:
  UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\\xfc' in position 16: ordinal not in range(128)

Steps to reproduce:
1) lp = Launchpad.login_with("test", "staging", version="devel")
2) lp.people.newTeam(name="úrsula", display_name="Úrsula's team")
3) Boom! UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xfa' in position 15: ordinal not in range(128)

[Curtis Hovey (sinzui)]

I cannot reproduce this on the web site, the name is correctly reported as invalid and the user is asked to fix it. The display name is fine and it accepted. I think something is getting mangle in the API submission. This may relate to the issue where fields are not validated on certain operations.

[Gary Poster (gary)]

To state the obvious and the possibly irrelevant: if the validation is done in views, it won't be done in the API.