[issue7300] Unicode arguments in str.format()

[Ezio Melotti]

Ezio Melotti added the comment:

2.6 only gets security fixes.

> My patch converts the format string to unicode using the default 
> encoding. It's inconsistent with str%args: str%args converts str to 
> unicode using the ASCII charset (if a least one argument is an unicode 
> string), not the default encoding.

I think it's better to be consistent and use ASCII.

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