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Alexander Shigin commented on THRIFT-395: ----------------------------------------- Your patch also throws exception if I send str type. {code} >>> unicode('абв', 'utf-8').encode('utf-8').encode('utf-8') Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xd0 in position 0: ordinal not in range(128) {code} > Python library + compiler does not support unicode strings > ---------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: THRIFT-395 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/THRIFT-395 > Project: Thrift > Issue Type: Bug > Components: Compiler (Python) > Reporter: Jonathan Ellis > Assignee: Jonathan Ellis > Priority: Blocker > Attachments: python-utf8.patch > > > Effectively, all strings in the python bindings are treated as binary strings > -- no encoding/decoding to UTF-8 is done. So if a unicode object is passed > to a (regular, non-binary) string, an exception is raised. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.