Text encoding is changed when passing a utf-8 string to content

I’d expect that utf-8 characters (such as German umlauts) are returned the way I passed them to content, however this is not the case:

import httpx
import respx

with respx.mock() as respx_mock:
    text_in = "Gehäusegröße"
    respx_mock.get("https://example.com", content=text_in)
    text_out = httpx.get("https://example.com").text
    print(text_in)
    print(text_out)
    print(text_in == text_out)

Gehäusegröße
Gehäusegröße
False

Versions: respx 0.12.1 and httpx 0.14.3

[lundberg]

Awesome if this could be solved in HTTPX!

If/when that HTTPX PR is merged, we’ll need to decide if it’s enough to just remove mentioned RESPX todo’s and the encoding-code with it.

[lundberg]

About the content encoding, I think we should introduce encoding option to ResponseTemplate to align with HTTPX response flexibility.

From HTTPX chardet PR:

*Users can override this behaviour if required with an explicit response.encoding = ...

We can have it set to utf-8 by default, but overridable when adding patterns to RESPX.