Something wrong with encoding in AndroidNotification

[coffebar]

def notify(title, message):
    return AndroidNotification().notify(title=title, message=message)

notify(u'Vk Service', u'Нет новых сообщений')

and i see this notification:

but next works without such problems:

class MyApp(App):
    def build(self):
        return Label(text=u'Привет')

What can I do to localize notifications?

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[Kovak]

Make sure the encoding on your supplied strings is utf-8 as that is what plyer is expecting.

[coffebar]

I'm using unicode strings ( u'...' )
Look at method _notify in AndroidNotification class,
I see ".encode('utf-8')" there:

def _notify(self, **kwargs):
    icon = getattr(Drawable, kwargs.get('icon_android', 'icon'))
    noti = NotificationBuilder(activity)
    noti.setContentTitle(AndroidString(
        kwargs.get('title').encode('utf-8')))
    noti.setContentText(AndroidString(
        kwargs.get('message').encode('utf-8')))
    noti.setSmallIcon(icon)
    noti.setAutoCancel(True)

    if SDK_INT >= 16:
        noti = noti.build()
    else:
        noti = noti.getNotification()

    self._get_notification_service().notify(0, noti)

double "encode" leads to exception:

[coffebar]

I made demo app to demonstrate problem, may be this will help to solve it.

[IvanTheFirst]

I had problem with sms example, maybe this is the same? Try this:
unicode(str('я').strip(codecs.BOM_UTF8), 'utf-8')

this will clean utf8 header from the Python string

[KeyWeeUsr]

Right now I could display not only cyrillic characters, but even emoji characters in the notification. Please check with either the latest stable (1.3.2) or even master branch. New release will come soon.