[issue2948] Unicode support for hashing algorithms

[Raymond Hettinger]

Raymond Hettinger <rhettinger at users.sourceforge.net> added the comment:

I don't think this is the right thing to do.  The hash algorithms are 
defined in terms of bytes, but Unicode is an abstracted from a byte 
level encoding.  It doesn't make sense to convert using an arbitrary 
encoding (such as UTF-8) because someone else might hash the same text 
using a different encoding.

Mark, do you concur?

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assignee:  -> lemburg
nosy: +lemburg, rhettinger
type:  -> feature request
versions: +Python 2.6 -Python 2.5

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