Comment 67 for bug 893091

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In , Simon McVittie (smcv) wrote :

So the main thing I'm not happy about here is the handling of UTF8String.

I've already explained what the rationale for UTF8String was, and it makes no sense in a Python 3 world, so I think we can categorise it as "failed experiment" and move on. Here is my suggestion:

* Don't make keywords() public or expect library users to call it

* Don't use UTF8String in library code except where needed to implement
  existing semantics; don't use it in tests except where the purpose of
  the test is to demonstrate that UTF8String works

* Skip tests whose only purpose is to demonstrate UTF8String in Python 3,
  since they're meaningless