Re: String shapes and encodings

Lennart Regebro via reportlab-users <[email protected]> Wed, 8 Jun 2022 04:31:05 +0200
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On Tue, Jun 7, 2022 at 10:40 AM Robin Becker <[email protected]> wrote:

> I don't think I would like to apply this patch anytime soon. If others
> have an opinion please speak up.
>

As I understand it, the encoding will simply be ignored if a unicode string
is given, so keeping the possibility of passing in a bytestring and an
encoding is not a problem, even though it's no longer necessary.

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_attr">On Tue, Jun 7, 2022 at 10:40 AM Robin Becker &lt;<a href=3D"mailto:r=
[email protected]">[email protected]</a>&gt; wrote:<br></div><blockquote=
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