utils.XMLToDictParser().parseXML() shouldn't encode input to 'utf-8'

[Jiri Popelka]

Hi,

I have this bug report https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=870402
It contains this backtrace https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=633807
which reveals two problems.

I already reported the first one as bug #1073197.
The second seems to be in utils.XMLToDictParser().parseXML() which tries to convert the input text from unicode to utf-8. Problem is that the input XML already is utf-8 and that's why the UnicodeDecodeError is thrown out.
I see the try:catch: section was added in 3.12.9 and I think it can be removed, see the attached patch.

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Jiri

[Sanjay Kumar (sanjay-kumar14)]

Hello Jiri,

Thanks for the patch. We will look into this.