Unicode decoding error about python-cybox HOT 2 CLOSED

I was able to parse both of those documents as email bodies after making the following change to the email_to_cybox script: CybOXProject/Tools@dfdee82

The key with the APIs for now is to pass in either Python unicode objects (u"" literals, for instance) or strings that can be converted to unicode directly with unicode() (for all practical purposes, this means ASCII strings; you can change the default system encoding, but that's at your own risk 😉).

I think we should consider converting most values (particularly String and subclasses) with unicode as soon they are set, so you don't have to wait until you export the value to get an error. I'm going to leave this issue open while we think about the best way to do that (and in particular whether there's a sane way to do it more "universally" and not just on String objects).

Thanks for pointing this out, @2xyo. I've known our unicode support is poor, so if you find other instances please report them. Those two documents are very useful; I'm surprised I haven't run across them before.

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This issue has been fixed. I was leaving this open to catch other Unicode-related errors, but those should really just be opened as new issues.

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