mangroveorg/mangrove — comment on commit 3f297250198c4b24c8bb63186af08c8771c2dc4e
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By apgeorge:

Isn't UTF-8 how django encodes strings by default? So if django stores the message in utf-8 and loads it as utf-8, why do we need to encode it again?
Are we changing the default encoding somewhere? or is this bypassing django somehow?