vText, when decoded, should not return a instance of itself but an encoded string.

src/icalendar/cal.py

@@ -18,7 +18,8 @@ from .parser import (
     q_join,
 )
 from .prop import TypesFactory
-
+from .prop import vText
+from .parser_tools import DEFAULT_ENCODING
 
 ######################################
 # The component factory
@@ -153,6 +154,10 @@ class Component(CaselessDict):
         # types here. But when parsing from an ical string with from_ical, we
         # want to encode the string into a real icalendar.prop property.
         decoded = types_factory.from_ical(name, value)
+        # TODO: remove when proper decoded is implemented in every prop.* class
+        # Workaround to decode vText properly
+        if isinstance(decoded, vText):
+            decoded = decoded.encode(DEFAULT_ENCODING)
         return decoded
 
     def decoded(self, name, default=_marker):

src/icalendar/tests/small.rst

@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ A small example::
     vText('-//My product//mxm.dk/')
 
     >>> cal.decoded('prodid')
-    vText('-//My product//mxm.dk/')
+    '-//My product//mxm.dk/'
 
     >>> first_event = cal.walk('vevent')[0]
     >>> first_event['description'][:75]

src/icalendar/tests/test_unit_cal.py

@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ class TestCalComponent(unittest.TestCase):
         self.assertEqual(c['prodid'], prop.vText(u'-//my product//'))
 
         # ... or decoded to a python type
-        self.assertEqual(c.decoded('prodid'), u'-//my product//')
+        self.assertEqual(c.decoded('prodid'), '-//my product//')
 
         # With default values for non existing properties
         self.assertEqual(c.decoded('version', 'No Version'), 'No Version')