Merge pull request mtalexan#26 from Matt141421356/master

v1meta: Fix UnicodeEncodeError when using utf-8 in newvalue

Author: veplechuc

v1pysdk/v1meta.py

@@ -119,8 +119,11 @@ def generate_update_doc(self, newdata):
         node = Element('Attribute')
         node.set('name', attrname)
         node.set('act', 'set')
-        node.text = str(newvalue)
-      update_doc.append(node)
+        if isinstance(newvalue, unicode) != True:
+            node.text = str(newvalue).decode('utf-8')
+        else:
+            node.text = newvalue
+       update_doc.append(node)
     return update_doc
 
   def create_asset(self, asset_type_name, newdata):