[Zope3-dev] Re: Existential question about BytesWidget v.s. ASCIIWidget

[Stéphane Brunet]

Derrick Hudson wrote:

>On Sun, Jun 12, 2005 at 08:20:36PM -0400, Stéphane Brunet wrote:
>[... (read the thread if you want all the background info) ...]
>
>| What is the "raison d'être" of ASCIIWidget v.s. BytesWidget if they 
>| expect the same type of input (plain ASCII text) and store it the same 
>| type of fields?
>
>My interpretation is this:  BytesWidget will accept any byte in the
>range 0x00 - 0xFF whereas the ASCIIWidget is intended to only accept
>bytes in the range 0x20 - 0x7E and 0x09.  In other words I expect that
>the ASCIIWidget will accept only printable characters from the ASCII
>character set (IOW "text") but the BytesWidget will accept a sequence
>of any arbitrary 8-bit value.
>
>  
>
That's what I thought... However, Bytes(Area)Widgets only accept ASCII 
input, even if the Bytes widget accepts any bytes in the 0-255 range.

Stéphane