From: Adam Sampson <ats@offog.org>
Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2009 18:36:38 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Don't encode and decode when copying nearly-unicode objects.
X-Git-Tag: v2.13~9
X-Git-Url: http://git.ozo.com/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=3b8eb1c09f63d05d28e95890527d1b928d31c262;p=rawdog%2F.git

Don't encode and decode when copying nearly-unicode objects.

Why? Because BeautifulSoup's string class has a broken encode
implementation... and it appears that the unicode class is smart enough
to not reuse the object when it's a subclass anyway.
---

diff --git a/rawdoglib/rawdog.py b/rawdoglib/rawdog.py
index 0880cf5..988aacd 100644
--- a/rawdoglib/rawdog.py
+++ b/rawdoglib/rawdog.py
@@ -290,7 +290,7 @@ def ensure_unicode(value, encoding):
 		# This is a subclass of unicode (e.g.  BeautifulSoup's
 		# NavigableString, which is unpickleable in some versions of
 		# the library), so force it to be a real unicode object.
-		return value.encode("UTF-8").decode("UTF-8")
+		return unicode(value)
 	elif isinstance(value, dict):
 		d = {}
 		for (k, v) in value.items():