def test_serialization_unicode_support(self):
assert Commit.default_encoding.lower() == 'utf-8'
# create a commit with unicode in the message, and the author's name
# Verify its serialization and deserialization
cmt = self.rorepo.commit('0.1.6')
assert isinstance(cmt.message, text_type) # it automatically decodes it as such
assert isinstance(cmt.author.name, text_type) # same here
cmt.message = u"üäêèß"
assert len(cmt.message) == 5
cmt.author.name = u"äüß"
assert len(cmt.author.name) == 3
cstream = BytesIO()
cmt._serialize(cstream)
cstream.seek(0)
assert len(cstream.getvalue())
ncmt = Commit(self.rorepo, cmt.binsha)
ncmt._deserialize(cstream)
assert cmt.author.name == ncmt.author.name
assert cmt.message == ncmt.message
# actually, it can't be printed in a shell as repr wants to have ascii only
# it appears
cmt.author.__repr__()
