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18772	force_unicode needs to go through deprecation policy	Adrian Holovaty	nobody	"Looks like {{{django.utils.text.force_unicode}}} was removed recently, without providing a backwards-compatible shim. The method had been documented (and I use it at work) -- so imagine my surprise when updating my Django trunk code resulted in a hard breaking of my site.

Apparently {{{django.utils.encoding.force_text}}} is the new thing going forward. I haven't been paying attention to the developments here, so I'm not comfortable writing a patch for something so fundamental to the framework... :-/"	Bug	closed	Python 3	dev	Release blocker	fixed			Accepted	0	0	0	0	0	0