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From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
To: Floris Bruynooghe <flub@devork.be>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] python: add bindings for
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Floris Bruynooghe <flub@devork.be> writes:

> Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net> writes:
>
> This also has the binary question problem, is this returned as bytes or
> as str?  Current Python bindings seem to go for .decode('utf-8',
> errors='ignore') afaik which is somewhat lossy.
>

IMHO there's no reason to support non-utf8 properties. We should
document this restriction now while adoption is relatively light.

d