Fetch binary file via repo.git.show

[redimp]

I want to fetch a binary file via repo.git.show. That works until I want to handle it as binary file.

from io import BytesIO
import git
    
# initialize repository
repo = git.Repo('.')
# use git show to get the content of example.jpg in revision 19e91a
u = repo.git.show("4cb2a02:example.jpg")

b = BytesIO(u.encode('utf-8'))

I run into

UnicodeEncodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't encode character '\udcff' in position 0: surrogates not allowed

Can I fetch the file binary in any way?

This is more a feature request than a bug. I want to apologize if this is not the correct way to handle it.

[redimp]

I solved it thanks to https://stackoverflow.com/a/50004051/212768

b = BytesIO(u.encode('utf-8','surrogateescape'))