geoffl/miro — comment on commit 249a2c17f91c93a01fc12b882186226dee4a7de4
File: tv/lib/frontends/widgets/itemedit.py line 272
By geoffl:

Actually, it seems to be able to take either. The get_text() function however always returns unicode, because internally it appears to return a str and then we manually run it through a decode('utf-8') to make it into a unicode type.