[Zope-Checkins] CVS: Zope/lib/python/Products/OFSP/help - Properties.stx:1.2.216.1

Toby Dickenson tdickenson@geminidataloggers.com
Tue, 19 Mar 2002 05:50:12 -0500


Update of /cvs-repository/Zope/lib/python/Products/OFSP/help
In directory cvs.zope.org:/tmp/cvs-serv7296/help

Modified Files:
      Tag: toby-unicode-branch
	Properties.stx 
Log Message:
added new unicode property types to help

=== Zope/lib/python/Products/OFSP/help/Properties.stx 1.2 => 1.2.216.1 ===
       'int' -- An integer number, for example, '12'. 
 
-      'lines' -- A list of strings, one per line. 
+      'lines', 'ulines' -- A list of strings, one per line. 
 
       'long' -- A long integer, for example '12232322322323232323423'. 
 
-      'string' -- A string of characters, for example 'This is a string'. 
+      'string', 'ustring' -- A string of characters, for example 'This is a string'. 
 
-      'text' -- A multi-line string, for example a paragraph. 
+      'text', 'utext' -- A multi-line string, for example a paragraph. 
 
-      'tokens' -- A list of strings separated by white space, for example
+      'tokens', 'utokens' -- A list of strings separated by white space, for example
       'one two three'. 
 
       'selection' -- A string selected by a pop-up menu. 
 
       'multiple selection' -- A list of strings selected by a selection list.
+
+      Some of these textual properties come in two forms. The 'u'-prefixed
+      form stores Unicode text. The form without the prefix stores a python
+      plain string object, which is commonly assumed to contain latin-1
+      text.
 
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