[Python-Dev] Minidom and Unicode

[Paul Prescod]

"M.-A. Lemburg" wrote:
> 
> ...
> 
> I think it's ok to auto-convert to the default encoding
> as intermediate solution, but the applications wanting to
> return Unicode as __repr__ or __str__ should really
> use .encode() to make sure the output that is produces
> matches their (or their user's) expectations.

If my users have expectations, I don't know them. I could allow them to
tell me what encoding to use, but surely they would rather do that in a
Python-wide fashion.

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