Apparently I don't need to utf8 encode there...

diff --git a/twitter/cmdline.py b/twitter/cmdline.py
index 6e7006c0815d9acb18d9a3357ec88cd5e1a96eba..95b0ffa9335011409e1e85c1abfed4d0282a9f60 100644 (file)
--- a/twitter/cmdline.py
+++ b/twitter/cmdline.py
@@ -451,8 +451,7 @@ class SetStatusAction(Action):
         statusTxt = (" ".join(options['extra_args'])
                      if options['extra_args']
                      else str(input("message: ")))
-        status = (statusTxt.encode('utf8', 'replace'))
-        twitter.statuses.update(status=status)
+        twitter.statuses.update(status=statusTxt)
 
 class TwitterShell(Action):