[Zope] ZMI Editor Corruption

Chris McDonough chrism@zope.com
19 May 2002 20:29:50 -0400


Sounds like a browser problem to me.  If it continues, try using a
different browser for a while to see if it does things differently.

On Sun, 2002-05-19 at 20:22, Dan Shafer wrote:
> I edit my Zope sites primarily on my OS X system, occasionally using Win2k.
> 
> Yesterday, I began noticing some unusual crud showing up in the Python 
> script files I was working with on OS X. The first thing I noted was that 
> the first few characters of the first line of a script had just 
> disappeared. I went to a text file copy of the script on my local drive and 
> copied the missing characters, went back to Zope and pasted them.
> 
> Instead of the pasted characters showing up, I'd see several unprintable 
> characters. You know, little rectangles, symbols, etc.
> 
> I must have spent 15 minutes with the stupid thing trying to isolate the 
> problem. I even re-copied the entire script and pasted it. It never got any 
> better.
> 
> Finally, I deleted the script, created a new object of the same name, and 
> then pasted in the file on my disk. That appears to have worked.
> 
> Is this documented behavior? Is my data.fs file perhaps corrupt? Any insights?
> 
> 
> 
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