[Zope-Coders] unicode question

[Brian Lloyd]

> Thanks Andreas. That answers it for the ZCatalog package.
> 
> I'm also looking for a more general policy statement on Zope and Unicode.

The official policy statement is: we don't want to be writing
new code that (intentionally) would prevent unicode from being 
used in a given situation.

Getting Zope unicode-friendly will take time, and will need to 
be tackled in a number of projects. Some will tackle actually 
making use of unicode (for I18N), and others will be concerned 
with fixing old code that is not prepared to see unicode.

Most of the hard issues will be dealt with in the proposals and 
other artifacts of those projects. When we run into (presumably 
smaller) unicode-related issues in other work, the right answer 
is to either make the code unicode-friendly (for minor things) 
or to escalate the issue to a proposal (when we run into an 
unexpected can of worms).



Brian Lloyd        brian@zope.com
Software Engineer  540.361.1716       
Zope Corporation   http://www.zope.com