[Zope-dev] Fwd: Re: [Zope-CMF] Weird UnicodeDecodeError with zope.formlib

[Adam GROSZER]

On 11/29/2012 08:20 PM, Charlie Clark wrote:
> I'm forwarding this from the CMF list as I'm stumped. I worked my way up
> the debug stack but couldn't find what was causing one Zope instance to
> decode to unicode and the other to leave content as utf-8 (or maybe it's
> the other way round?). Both instances on the same machine.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Charlie
>
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> Von: "Charlie Clark" <charlie.clark at clark-consulting.eu>
> An: zope-cmf at zope.org
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> Betreff: Re: [Zope-CMF] Weird UnicodeDecodeError with zope.formlib
> Datum: Thu, 29 Nov 2012 11:52:13 +0100
>
> Am 29.11.2012, 09:43 Uhr, schrieb Charlie Clark
> <charlie.clark at clark-consulting.eu>:
>
>> No. I guess I'll have to look more closely at the wigdets data. As I
>> said a different site on the same machine doesn't exhibit these
>> problems so I should have a point of comparison.
>
> Definitely weird. From site 1:
>
> (Pdb) t = self.widgets['town']
> (Pdb) t._getFormInput()
> u'D\xfcsseldorf'
>
> as expected but from site 2:
>
> (Pdb) t = self.widgets['town']
> (Pdb) t._getFormInput()
> 'D\xc3\xbcsseldorf'
>
> Note the similarity of the field name as one of these forms started out as
> a copy of the other. Need to check what is causing this. I think I might
> have set a default encoding for Zope to UTF8 ostensibly to reduce IE /
> Safari errors. Oh, isn't this fun!
>
> Charlie
>
>

I think I had the same. My hunch was IE, but had no repro.
If you *have* a repro, you could log the *whole* raw request input and 
investigate what's the difference.

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  Adam GROSZER
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