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authorLeonard Richardson <leonardr@segfault.org>2012-05-24 10:49:48 -0400
committerLeonard Richardson <leonardr@segfault.org>2012-05-24 10:49:48 -0400
commit44a7d024d824ccf557f67c81503131f824e3b109 (patch)
treee3dec9f186700293adf90da5b33ef904cf7f1e73 /doc/source
parent6ec38efd97e9deb8fb362890f670ba9571f60e10 (diff)
Fixed the basic failure in [bug=1003974], but not more advanced cases.
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@@ -1017,6 +1017,9 @@ code finds all the <b> tags in the document::
soup.find_all('b')
# [<b>The Dormouse's story</b>]
+If you pass in a byte string, Beautiful Soup will assume the string is
+encoded as UTF-8. You can avoid this by passing in a Unicode string instead.
+
.. _a regular expression:
A regular expression