Expose dump_data_fields_utf8 ?

[ldng]

My version of pdftk (3.0.2) has both a dump_data_fields and a dump_data_fields_utf8.
The former does not output accent correctly while the later does the job as expected.

Could/should it be exposed ?
Should the dump_data_fields python function use silently the dump_data_fields_utf8 command when available since in Python3 all string are unicode anyway ?

[revolunet]

Agree that we should only have one function for this

[mogli91]

+1
I ran into this issue when running pdftk-java in a debian docker container. Basically, German umlaut characters and other special unicode characters are simply replaced by a "?". However, if I use cmd = f'{pypdftk.PDFTK_PATH} debug_filled.pdf dump_data_fields_utf8' then also p = pypdftk.check_output(cmd, shell=True) has mainly the expected output (correct unicode characters).
I am saying mainly because I noticed that multiline FieldValues are currently unsupported. I will open a separate issue for this (created issue #43 )

[JHei]

+1
unfortunately still not available?