Hello Sebastian, I've attached a diff for some proposed changes to help make dealing with unicode and strings in the bindings more regular. I noticed some of the methods were protected and others were not. Let me know. Best Regards, Martin Owens On Thu, 2011-09-08 at 15:45 +0200, Sebastian Spaeth wrote: > I have to admit, I am not deep into the libnotmuch/xapian internals, > so > I might be the wrong person to ask (I just do some python bindings to > whatever libnotmuch provides).