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James Clarke commented on THRIFT-395:
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{quote}You can continue to use the string type. Just be sure that all of the 
str objects that you pass into Thrift are properly UTF-8-encoded.{quote}

This is what I'm currently doing which is fine for me but may be more 
challenging for users.  I was worried that educating potential consumers of the 
service about string encoding (and how to do it in their language, everything 
but Java and C#) would make the service appear less user friendly than it is.

> Python library + compiler does not support unicode strings
> ----------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 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: 0.2
>
>         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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