Improved newforms to handle wacky characters in Field help_text

git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk@4543 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/django/newforms/fields.py b/django/newforms/fields.py
index 1391bd1b2f..0f082b9ee3 100644
--- a/django/newforms/fields.py
+++ b/django/newforms/fields.py
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ class Field(object):
         if label is not None:
             label = smart_unicode(label)
         self.required, self.label, self.initial = required, label, initial
-        self.help_text = help_text
+        self.help_text = smart_unicode(help_text or '')
         widget = widget or self.widget
         if isinstance(widget, type):
             widget = widget()