[Zope3-dev] Re: Better default namechooser

[Philipp von Weitershausen]

Christian Zagrodnick wrote:
> I constantly run into the fact that the default namechooser in Zope 3 is 
> too dumb.
> 
> Does anybody object in making it a little more smart? That is:
> 
> * replace all non us-ascii and otherwise harmful chars by something 
>   useful (base-form or alike)

Why would you want to replace all non-ASCII characters by default? Names 
of contained objects can be unicode, and URLs can contain unicode 
segments as well (encoded as UTF-8). Having the default namechooser make 
the arbitrary decision of disallowing everything that's not ASCII seems 
quite arbitrary.

> * replace spaces by - or _

Again, object names may contain spaces. I don't understand why this 
should be the *default* policy. If you need this kind of stuff, then I 
suggest you write your own namechooser; it's quite trivial.


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