[reportlab-users] String shapes and encodings

[Claude Paroz]

Le 08.06.22 à 04:31, Lennart Regebro a écrit :
> On Tue, Jun 7, 2022 at 10:40 AM Robin Becker <robin at reportlab.com 
> <mailto:robin at reportlab.com>> wrote:
> 
>     I don't think I would like to apply this patch anytime soon. If
>     others have an opinion please speak up.
> 
> 
> As I understand it, the encoding will simply be ignored if a unicode 
> string is given, so keeping the possibility of passing in a bytestring 
> and an encoding is not a problem, even though it's no longer necessary.

No, the isUnicode check would force text input to be Unicode (a normal 
Python string). The encoding parameter should be deprecated/removed at 
some point.
So instead of String(b'd\xe9j\xe0', encoding='latin-1'), users should 
pass String(b'd\xe9j\xe0'.decode('latin-1')).

Claude
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