[rfc] bencode unicode strings

[Aaron Bentley]

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Alexander Belchenko wrote:
> See my explanations above: I have unicode strings everywhere in Qt and I
> need to store some of these strings in config files (e.g. qbzr.conf,
> branch.conf or tree.conf). Configobj requires me to provide an unicode
> strings to store

No, Configobj can work in bytestring or unicode modes.

>, so I have to do double conversion here:

If you're storing them in config files, you should generally store
human-readable values.  ConfigObj supports dict of (dicts of) unicode
strings-- isn't that sufficient?

> 1) Convert my unicode strings to utf-8
> 2) Bencode them
> 3) Convert bencoded result from utf-8 to unicode

I think this may be invalid.

Aaron.
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