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David Reiss commented on THRIFT-395:
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I think you are assuming that the "string" is a "Unicode string" or a "string
of Unicode code points". Just because something is a "string" doesn't mean it
is Unicode.
bq. Calling it a string when it may or may not be is holding languages that do
have real string support hostage to those that don't.
It is a string, regardless of whether or not it is UTF-8 or Unicode. And Java
is not "hostage". You document what you consider to be acceptable values and
throw an exception when the client supplies something else.
> Python library + compiler does not support unicode strings
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>
> Key: THRIFT-395
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/THRIFT-395
> Project: Thrift
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Compiler (Python), Library (Python)
> Reporter: Jonathan Ellis
> Assignee: Jonathan Ellis
> Fix For: 0.1
>
> Attachments:
> 0001-python-Minor-cleanup-of-protocols-don-t-use-str.patch,
> 0002-THRIFT-395.-python-Phase-One-of-support-for-unicode.patch,
> 0003-THRIFT-395.-python-Phase-Two-of-support-for-unicode.patch,
> 0004-python-Remove-ridiculous-semicolons-from-gen-code.patch,
> python-utf8-v2.patch, 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.
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