bzero 0.14 available - now with Unicode support (ok, UTF-8 support, but that's close enough). Hmm. Now I probably need to plan that for PyDS as well? We'll see. His approach is quite simple - convert everything to &#xxx; format, which allows you to stream the result upstream without problems. Should be able to integrate that in a few places (getFirstValue, getAllValues), then that should do it.
Speaking of PyDS: categories are now there, generally the weblog is mostly complete, but the rendering part is still a bit behind - I've added some features (specifically categories and onhome) that are still missing there. And of course I still don't have upstreaming. Which limits PyDS somewhat. Found at Second p0st.