[Zope-CMF] CMFSetup: non-ascii text

Dieter Maurer dieter at handshake.de
Sun Jul 3 17:12:03 EDT 2005


Florent Guillaume wrote at 2005-7-1 20:43 +0200:
> ...
>The problem is on import, you don't really know if a non-ascii string  
>should be stored as unicode or as an encoded str. And the software  
>may break if it gets something it doesn't expect...

That's why the whole Python world including Zope (it does with Zope 3)
and CMF should follow Java and require "for text always use Unicode".
And for non-text, CMFSetup should use a specialize "binary" type.


-- 
Dieter


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