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

Stéphane Brunet stbru at teksavvy.com
Mon Jun 13 10:04:40 EDT 2005


Stéphane Brunet wrote:

> 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.
>
Small correction: read ... even if the Bytes _field_ accepts any bytes 
in the 0-255 range.

Stéphane



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