[Zope] Character-set woes (possibly OT)

[Mark Barratt]

Chris Withers wrote:
> Mark Barratt wrote:
> 
>> Has anyone any experience or know of any information sources which 
>> might help me understand/control this workflow so that users have some 
>> chance of seeing what they thought they input?
> 
> 
> I'd have a search through the list archives for "character encoding".
> 
> That said, if you have specific exception types, values and tracebacks, 
> the list may be able to help...

Thanks, Chris

Pragmatic solution: define the character-set as iso-8859-1 in the page 
containing the form which in turn contains the rich-text-editing widget, 
and in pages which display the results. Windows clients ensure that what 
goes into the entry field conforms to that character-set, whether it's 
typed or added by a paste operation from, say, Word. Zope and MySQL seem 
to pass through the results cleanly. Not yet tested on Mac clients.

Remaining issues: UTF-8-encoded Unicode breaks big-time. I know this is 
an issue for MySQL, and it seems to be an issue for Zope also.


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