id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc	stage	has_patch	needs_docs	needs_tests	needs_better_patch	easy	ui_ux
20812	django.utils.encoding.force_text() should call unicode() instead of __unicode__()	lie.1296@…	nobody	"Unlike the `unicode()` builtin function, the method `__unicode__()` does not validate its return type.

If people wrote a buggy `__unicode__` which does not return `str` or `unicode`, this can lead to a situation where `force_text()` will return non-text, and so the bug may only appear much, much later when other parts of the application assumes they were getting text and often it will become very difficult to find how the non-string object came from.

Expected result:

`force_text()` should be switched to use `unicode()` so returning non-text from `__unicode__()` will immediately raise an error at the point where the error would have been obvious. "	Bug	new	Utilities	1.5	Normal				Unreviewed	0	0	0	0	0	0