Version:           0.37 RC2 (using KDE KDE 3.4.3)
Installed from:    Slackware Packages
OS:                Linux

SuperKaramba 0.37 RC2's getInputBoxValue function does not OUTPUT Unicode. (At least Russian/Cyrrilic)

SYSTEM:
Slackware 10.2
2.6.13.x kernel
"set | grep LANG" = LANG=en_US.utf8

BUG SUMMARY:
The widget displays the Unicode text properly when entered directly in the box. (see screenshot)
When getInputBoxValue function is called from python, it seems to return only CHAR type. All unicode letters are replaced by question marks. (see same screenshot)
(By the way, keyPressed karamba function also returns ?'s on Unicode input (russian in my case). related?)

DETAILS:
- entering some German chars seems to work, so it may be a problem for chars outside of Latin 1 codepage. (I don't know German, or know how to use German keyboard correctly. I just tried to enter letters a and u with dots on top. My test applet seemed to return correct char numbers 228, 252 to stdout.)
- the problem seems to stem from the fact of getInputBoxValue returning a "char" as opposed to "unicode" object. getInputBoxValue seems to overwrite the pre-declaration of the return variable as unicode. So, (i would like to think) it's not a problem with my python code. Example:

def keyPressed(widget, meter, char):
    global input # this is the pointer to inputBox
    if meter == input:
        print "keyPressed: key= '", char, "' | Ordial is '", ord(char)
	text = u''  # manual declaration as Unicode, and test (print bellow)
	print "text type BEFORE geting text from inputBox is: ",type(text)
        text = karamba.getInputBoxValue(widget, input)
	print "text type AFTER geting text from inputBox is: ",type(text)
	print text

Returns something like that:

keyPressed: key= ' t ' | Ordial is ' 116
text type BEFORE geting text from inputBox is:  <type 'unicode'>
text type AFTER geting text from inputBox is:  <type 'str'>
jobnot
[lots of errors here due to using of a layout switch key combination]
[I switched to russian(winkeys) layout]
keyPressed: key= ' ? ' | Ordial is ' 63 (I entered russian letter here)
text type BEFORE geting text from inputBox is:  <type 'unicode'>
text type AFTER geting text from inputBox is:  <type 'str'>
jobnot?
(the fact that it "prints" it without an error, supports that the string doesn't contain non-latin chars.)

ATTACHMENTS:
One tarball containing the testing SuperKaramba widget and a screenshot.