[lxml-dev] Passing UTF-8 bytestrings to lxml

[Stefan Behnel]

Hi,

John J Lee wrote:
> So, my question: were I also to change the function funicode (also in 
> apihelpers.pxi) to return UTF-8 bytestrings, would lxml always return 
> UTF-8 bytestring objects from all of its API calls?

funicode() is a very central function that is called whenever a UTF-8 byte
sequence is to be converted to a Python string. I won't give you a guarantee
that everything will work if you change it, but at least I don't see a major
problem at first sight.

Stefan