From e688d4876a761f9c89e427e9c451fd2968123909 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Anton Khirnov <anton@khirnov.net>
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2021 12:19:54 +0100
Subject: ComposeCommand: read template/signature as text

We should not try to guess anything, just use the platform encoding.

Remove helper.try_decode(), as it has no more callers.
---
 alot/helper.py | 11 -----------
 1 file changed, 11 deletions(-)

(limited to 'alot/helper.py')

diff --git a/alot/helper.py b/alot/helper.py
index 8a7261e5..4283faea 100644
--- a/alot/helper.py
+++ b/alot/helper.py
@@ -195,17 +195,6 @@ def guess_encoding(blob):
         raise Exception('Unknown magic API')
 
 
-def try_decode(blob):
-    """Guess the encoding of blob and try to decode it into a str.
-
-    :param bytes blob: The bytes to decode
-    :returns: the decoded blob
-    :rtype: str
-    """
-    assert isinstance(blob, bytes), 'cannot decode a str or non-bytes object'
-    return blob.decode(guess_encoding(blob))
-
-
 def libmagic_version_at_least(version):
     """
     checks if the libmagic library installed is more recent than a given
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