[Zope3-dev] Issue 124 in the collector.

[Martijn Faassen]

Jim Fulton wrote:
> >The Python you're using when running zope3 should have
> >sys.defaultencoding set to 'utf' and not 'ascii'.
> 
> Absolutely, positively not!
> 
> We will not change the default encoding in Zope 3.  This would
> be a bug magnet.
> 
> Conversion to and from unicode is done by the publishing
> layer.  Application code should always deal with unicode.
> Application code should almost never encode or decode strings.
> If it does, it needs to specify an encoding.

Exactly. :)

In addition, if an application is dealing with other sources of string
data besides the publisher (for instance a relational database, or
a file), the same care should be taken to decode these into unicode before
these enter into your application.

Regards,

Martijn