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27795	Audit force_text invocations	Claude Paroz	Claude Paroz	"`django.utils.encoding.force_text` is called many times in Django code for several use cases:
  - force the evaluation of a lazy string
  - convert bytes or a bytestring (PY2) to str
  - convert an object to its string representation

A global audit is needed to clean that usage, also considering that Python 3 native strings are more wildly used.
I'm working on it currently."	Cleanup/optimization	closed	Utilities	dev	Normal	fixed			Accepted	0	0	0	0	0	0