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Jonathan Ellis commented on THRIFT-395:
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> As in all C++, Ruby, PHP, Perl, and Erlang programs, it is the simply
> application's responsibility to ensure that the string is properly UTF-8
> encoded on writing and to interpret the string ast UTF-8 on reading.
Then you are really passing binary data around and your IDL should reflect
that. Calling it a string implies there are semantics beyond a bunch of bytes
for which it's the application's responsibility to derive any meaning from.
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.
> 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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