[XML-SIG] xmlproc bug?

[Martin v. Loewis]

> If you feed() a unicode string into an xmlproc parser, Python barfs at
> line 234
>      # ignore unusal byte orders 2143 and 3412
>      elif new_data[:2] == '\xfe\xff':
>          enc = "utf-16-be" # with BOM
> 
> because apparently it is trying to convert the string to unicode and
> it's got 8bit characters.
> 
> Not sure what the right thing to do is.

My intuition is that feeding Unicode objects is an error, but that may
be debatable.

Regards,
Martin