[Zope3-dev] i18n, unicode, and the underline

[Stephan Richter]

On Monday 14 April 2003 09:56, Shane Hathaway wrote:
> While we're on the subject, I'd like to discuss some thoughts I've had
> on Zope I/O and Unicode.  It seems to me that the HTTP server should
> expect to work with pure byte arrays, since HTTP has only minimal
> provisions for Unicode.  I think the publisher should be the component
> that does the work of converting byte-array requests into Unicode, and
> of converting Unicode into byte arrays for the response.  What do you
> think?

But it does that already. Request (which does the conversion) is part of the 
Publisher.  I think the conversion is exactely at the right spot right now; 
earlier would be bad, since we would not know which data is binary and which 
is text and later would be too deep in the system.

Regards,
Stephan
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