[PATCH] Allow py_smb_savefile() to except utf text

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Fri, 2017-07-28 at 09:04 -0600, David Mulder via samba-technical
wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> This patch allows the smb python bindings to write utf encoded text to a
> file. Without this patch, py_smb_savefile() can only write ascii.
> Writing ascii to a utf-16 encoded file would leave trailing utf-16 chars
> at the end of the file, and trying to pass utf-16 to the savefile
> function would throw an exception.
> 
> Andrew and Garming,
> 
> This is related to the GPO patches. This is needed in order to write to
> files in sysvol (since GptTmpl.inf, for example, is utf-16 encoded).
> I've written a tool for modifying GPO policies. Please review.

Any chance of a test?

This just feels like the kind of thing that we need to be really
careful to have a test for giving future conversions to python3 where
the string behaviour changes.

Thanks,

Andrew Bartlett

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