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From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] nmbug: Allow Unicode tags and IDs in Python 2
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"W. Trevor King" <wking@tremily.us> writes:

>
>> At first I thought there might be problems with non-utf8 message-ids,
>> but that turns out not to be the case [1].  It seems like it would take
>> a fairly heroic effort to get non-UTF8 tags into the database (perhaps
>> by calling the library interface with bad strings?) so we can probably
>> ignore this case. It might be good to document the limitation though,
>> since AFAIK, dump and restore can roundtrip any old crap.
>
> How about in a NEWS entry in v2 of this series, and then echoing that
> NEWS entry in the notmuch-dtags (or whatever) man page once I work up
> that series?

Sure, sounds fine

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