Comment 5 for bug 339642

That's indeed a bug, but the patch is removing a line that was put in there explicitly for some reason. So what I'd like to have, before committing this, is a set of tests in a file named test_unicode.py, that encapsulates all of the recent unicode work.

Unfortunately a lot of these unicode fixes have been made in a completely ad-hoc manner, as people report problems, but we don't have a centralized list of cases to check against. His may be a reasonable fix, for all I know, but I'm afraid that if we apply it we'll get back 10 old bugs again. I don't know, maybe not, but there's simply no way to be sure.

I'm one of the most ignorant of our bunch in unicode issues, blissfully living in the stupidity of the ascii world. It would be great if one of us who knows more about this stuff could at least write a set of simple unicode tests that catch many of the recently reported encoding problems. Jorgen, Ville, any chance you guys could take this up at some point? You know about it a lot more than I do...