saltstack/salt — pull request #7631 by s0undt3ch (2013-10-05 14:27:26+00:00)
Title: Jinja needs to be "fed" Unicode data. Fixes #7576

Additionally, what's returned from `render_jinja_tmpl` is also a Unicode string to that the `SLS_ENCODER` can properly encode them. Encoding UTF-8 data as UTF-8 data using the `SLS_ENCODER` does not, of course, work.