def normalizeGlyphNote(value):
    """
    Normalizes Glyph Note.

    * **value** must be a :ref:`type-string`.
    * Returned value is an unencoded ``unicode`` string
    """
    if not isinstance(value, basestring):
        raise TypeError("Note must be a string, not %s."
                        % type(value).__name__)
    return unicode(value)