On Wed, Jun 09 2010, Stefan Monnier wrote:

> Since the spec says "must be valid UTF-8", I think that SDATA(object)
> might even be better than encoding to utf-8 since encoding to utf-8 will
> turn eight-bit-byte chars into raw bytes which will likely not make
> a valid utf-8 output.

I clearly not have enough inside myself to decide what's the best
approach. I can provide a good patch if needed, but I'm also quite sure
any of you can fix it correctly.

So as long as someone push a patch I'll be happy. :-)

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Julien Danjou
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