A few weeks ago, I mentioned 3 big things I'd like to see for merging Zope 2 and Zope 3: - Common Publisher - Common Security frameworks - Common ZPT implementations I forgot a very important need: - Common approach to Unicode In particular, In Zope 3, all text is stored and managed as Unicode. The publisher decodes request data and encodes response data. The vast majority of application and library code can ignore encoding issues. (The exceptions are applications and frameworks that need to exhange text with non-Unicode-aware external systems.) This has provided great simplifications and allowed us to avoid common pitfals from mixing Unicode and encoded text. We need to migrate Zope 2 to use a similar strategy. We need volunteers to brainstorm how this can be done and make one or more proposals. This is likely a prerequisite for finishing the publisher and ZPT work. Jim -- Jim Fulton mailto:jim@zope.com Python Powered! CTO (540) 361-1714 http://www.python.org Zope Corporation http://www.zope.com http://www.zope.org