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On Thu 2017-11-30 09:44:19 -0400, David Bremner wrote:
> Floris Bruynooghe <flub@devork.be> 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.

Agreed, my reading of the source is that we expect strings for both
property names and property values.  If they're both strings, we should
not support anything other than UTF-8 in either case.

      --dkg