- Collector #1583/ZReST: Fixed handling of the title attribute

        for non-ascii characters.

doc/CHANGES.txt

@@ -41,6 +41,9 @@ Zope Changes
 
     Bugs fixed
 
+      - Collector #1583/ZReST: Fixed handling of the title attribute
+        for non-ascii characters.
+
       - Collector #1577: Fixed cryptic error message in ZPublisher if a
         non-ASCII string is passed to a date, int, long or float property.
 

lib/python/Products/ZReST/ZReST.py

@@ -215,7 +215,7 @@ class ZReST(Item, PropertyManager, Historical, Implicit, Persistent):
         if document.children:
             item = document.children[0]
             if item.tagname == 'title':
-                self.title = str(item.children[0])
+                self.title = item.children[0].astext()
 
         # do the format
         self.formatted = pub.writer.write(document, pub.destination)