[Zope3-dev] Zope 3 ids, names, and unicode

[Martijn Faassen]

Yusei Tahara wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> > Uh, will Russion speakers find such a URL useful? Will anyone else?
> I don't want to use Japanese in URI segments(I'm from Japan:-).
> 
> But, such as ZWiki, wikipage name is content ids, then I can not named
> it in Japanese.Japanese name is better than ascii for me.
> 
> I think there is a problem that identifier and name are mixed.Ids are
> only for identification, it has no mean.

Well, I'd say ids in Zope, as they show up in urls at least, can have
a meaning. They don't have to have a meaning, but it's rather nice
that they *can* (it makes for readable urls among others). Very similar
to file names, which don't have to have a meaning, but it's rather nice
that they can.

Regards,

Martijn