[Zope3-dev] Re: [Zope3-checkins] CVS: Zope3/src/zope/app/content - folder.py:1.3

[Florent Guillaume]

On Mon, 2003-02-03 at 03:01, R. David Murray wrote:
> Florent Guillaume <fg@nuxeo.com> writes:
> >On Fri, 2003-01-17 at 20:18, R. David Murray wrote:
> >> >> +        try: unicode(name)
> >> >> +        except UnicodeDecodeError:
> >> >> +            raise TypeError("Name may not contain non-7-bit-ascii codes")
> [...]
> >Corner case though: if the user has managed to set his default encoding
> >to something like latin-1, you'll still store a non-unicode string with
> >non-7-bit characters.
> >
> >How about a simple 
> >    try:
> >        name = unicode(name)
> >    except UnicodeError:
> >        ...
> 
> Thus forcing/storing all ids as unicode strings?  That might be
> reasonable, but perhaps there is a design reason why ASCII ids
> need to be allowed?

There may be performance reasons I don't know about.
Or one could have a regexp explicitely checking for ASCII, like
re.compile('^[ -~]*$')

I think it's really best to be certain we store non-7-bit ascii names
using Unicode, so that charset conversion is done once and for all.

Florent

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