Quote topic name for URL encoding. Some browsers (viz. Midori, Uzbl) didn't like unencoded unicode chars in the URL, which App Engine development server responded with.  Google's live servers responded differently:
Quote topic name for URL encoding. Some browsers (viz. Midori, Uzbl)
didn't like unencoded unicode chars in the URL, which App Engine
development server responded with.  Google's live servers responded
differently:

POST / HTTP/1.1
Host: e-drop.appspot.com
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Content-Length: 15

name=caf%C3%A9s
HTTP/1.1 302 Found
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Cache-Control: no-cache
Expires: Fri, 01 Jan 1990 00:00:00 GMT
Date: Mon, 07 Sep 2009 00:36:54 GMT
Server: Google Frontend
Content-Length: 0

luciferous/edrop,luciferous/edrop