willkg/kitsune — comment on commit dd4355227b3cb6c883768379b991c099220e1175
File: apps/search/utils.py line 19
By willkg:

It's a utf-8 encoded string.

If we call .decode('utf-8') on it, that'll do the same as what smart_unicode is doing. So my assertion that we need to copy over smart_unicode is wrong.

I can move this to the excerpt call in oedipus. So then we just need to make sure that excerpt in elasticutils also returns a unicode.