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Author	vstinner
Recipients	mbecker, vstinner
Date	2008-11-21.23:07:02
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Message-id	<1227308823.66.0.273110538.issue4329@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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It's not a bug. base64 is a codec to encode bytes and characters. You have to encode your unicode string to bytes using a charset Example (utf-8): >>> from base64 import b64encode, b64decode >>> b64encode(u'a\xe9'.encode("utf-8")) 'YcOp' >>> unicode(b64decode('YcOp'), "utf-8") u'a\xe9'

It's not a bug. base64 is a codec to encode *bytes* and characters. 
You have to encode your unicode string to bytes using a charset
 Example (utf-8):
>>> from base64 import b64encode, b64decode
>>> b64encode(u'a\xe9'.encode("utf-8"))
'YcOp'
>>> unicode(b64decode('YcOp'), "utf-8")
u'a\xe9'

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Date	User	Action	Args
2008-11-21 23:07:03	vstinner	set	recipients: + vstinner, mbecker
2008-11-21 23:07:03	vstinner	set	messageid: <1227308823.66.0.273110538.issue4329@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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2008-11-21 23:07:02	vstinner	create