[Zope-dev] Unicode treatment in 2.6b1

Fri, 27 Sep 2002 01:32:52 +0200

> For PageTemplates, the various blocks produced by the template and
> python are sent to a StringIO-like object, which is responsible for
> converting them into a coherent thing when its getvalue() method is
> called. At the moment it doesn't deal very well mixed Unicode and
> non-Unicode strings so the reported failures don't surprise me.

BTW an example of a failing PageTemplate is:

<html>
  <span tal:replace="python:u'hello'" /> café
</html>

Because, deep inside StringIO, it tries to do something like:
        ''.join([u'hello', ' café'])

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