[Zope-dev] Re: [Checkins] SVN: Zope/branches/2.10/ OFS Image: Image and File now both support simple unicode objects for data (they function the same as strings for data).

[Christian Theune]

Florent Guillaume wrote:
> Has this change been discussed?
> I don't agree with it. Unicode strings aren't byte strings. File and 
> Image should only work with byte strings.
> Code dealing with them should always know and assume that they use str. 
> Anything using unicode with them is broken or has done insufficient 
> input validation.
> 
> Please revert, unless you can convince me otherwise.

Right. I raised that issue on IRC already too. I think this should be 
reverted _and_ unicode should explicitly be denied to enter those objects.

Christian

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