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Author	rhettinger
Recipients	lemburg, rhettinger, vvro
Date	2008-05-23.03:38:26
SpamBayes Score	0.0026885592
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Message-id	<[email protected]>
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I don't think this is the right thing to do. The hash algorithms are defined in terms of bytes, but Unicode is an abstracted from a byte level encoding. It doesn't make sense to convert using an arbitrary encoding (such as UTF-8) because someone else might hash the same text using a different encoding. Mark, do you concur?

I don't think this is the right thing to do.  The hash algorithms are 
defined in terms of bytes, but Unicode is an abstracted from a byte 
level encoding.  It doesn't make sense to convert using an arbitrary 
encoding (such as UTF-8) because someone else might hash the same text 
using a different encoding.

Mark, do you concur?

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Date	User	Action	Args
2008-05-23 03:38:30	rhettinger	set	spambayes_score: 0.00268856 -> 0.0026885592 recipients: + rhettinger, lemburg, vvro
2008-05-23 03:38:29	rhettinger	set	spambayes_score: 0.00268856 -> 0.00268856 messageid: <[email protected]>
2008-05-23 03:38:28	rhettinger	link	issue2948 messages
2008-05-23 03:38:27	rhettinger	create