use unicode internally
convert to and from unicode as needed, but use it internally
(from redmine: issue id 706, created on 2011-09-18 by gmueller, closed on 2013-01-07)
convert to and from unicode as needed, but use it internally
(from redmine: issue id 706, created on 2011-09-18 by gmueller, closed on 2013-01-07)