One problem with hexdigest is that it's longer and the column was
created as binary(16). We don't have a mechanism to run migrations on
this table, so we use UNHEX in SQL to have the equivalent as digest()
from hexdigest()
Co-authored-by: Jérome Perrin <jerome@nexedi.com>

Jérome: slightly adjusted manually to just use range where it does not
make a significant difference (for example in test)

also str representation of unicode character is different.

page templates unicode resolver already takes care of coercing when
needed and this is directly compatible with python2 and python3
Co-authored-by: Kazuhiko SHIOZAKI <kazuhiko@nexedi.com>