[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 37765] REGRESSION(57531): the commit-queue still hates Tor Arne Vestbø

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--- Comment #2 from Eric Seidel <eric at webkit.org>  2010-04-18 02:14:34 PST ---
I've now coded up two versions of this patch.

Both have failed in different places. :(

Unicode = trail of tears.

The first version tried to deploy use of the unicode() class more widely.  That
ran into trouble because we will have to change a bunch of places to be more
unicode() aware and correctly encode to utf-8 before calling things like
file.write().

The second version tried to remove use of the unicode() class from our codebase
and instead just encode Tor's name in utf8 in a str() object.  Turns out that
fails too, because if you call str("Tor Arne Vestb\xC3\xB8").encode("utf8")
python notices that \xC3 is not a valid ascii character and throws an
exception.

So it seems like python is forcing us towards using unicode().  That's just
gonna hurt.  A lot.

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