[Zope3-dev] Re: unicode problems !?

[Tres Seaver]

Philipp von Weitershausen wrote:
> Bjorn Tillenius wrote:
> 
>> On Sat, Oct 09, 2004 at 11:42:53AM +0200, Philipp von Weitershausen 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Files could grow an 'encoding' attribute that is updated by the 
>>> editing view according to the encoding of the request.
>>> I think text/* files should still be editable; we should fix up the 
>>> Bytes widget.
>>
>>
>>
>> Yes, adding an 'encoding' attribute is one option. Although I don't
>> understand what you mean by that it should be updated by the editing
>> view according to to request.
>>
>> Often when users upload files, the files will be encoded in an encoding
>> different from UTF-8.
> 
> 
> Why?

Because our views don't insist that the browser encode them that way? 
And some browsers (not mentioning any names, AIYEEEEEEE!) seem to feel 
free to upload text in random encodings, *without specifying the 
encoding in the upload request*, in cases where the originating form was 
lenient / silent about the expected encoding.

> The user writes some chinese text into the text box. The user doesn't 
> care about an encoding at that point. The user just wants to enter text 
> in a textarea. The view should deduce the encoding from the request.

We *can't* deduce it if the browser cheats.

> If you upload a non "text/*" file, yes, then you should be required to 
> specify an encoding. But then you won't be shown a textarea anyway.
> 
>> The File must also use its 'encoding' attribute to set the encoding of
>> the response.
> 
> 
> But of course :)

Tres.
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