Sorry for having to repost this, but I have not found an answer (nor received any response). Is this a Python thing, or a Zope thing? Does Zope/Python provide any suitable translation APIs for international character sets? Alexander Staubo http://www.mop.no/~alex/ mailto:redhand@mop.no
-----Original Message----- From: Alexander Staubo [mailto:alex@mop.no] Sent: 6. mai 1999 21:11 To: zope@zope.org Subject: [Zope] Dealing with international character sets
I note that Zope is converting strings with certain international characters into its own notation. Specifically, in my country our alphabet contains three additional characters. For example, "oslash" (\0xF8 on my system), which Zope expands into "\370". Oddly enough Zope does not have the same problem with other international characters such as accented letters, or the German alphabet.
Now, this is extremely inconvenient when dealing with database tables, because obvious such things as name lookup won't work, and besides, any strings that are put into the table fields will use Zope syntax, not a "proper" character set (eg., ISO-8859-1, which is the one we use here). Is there a solution? For example, a function to convert the Zope string back to my kind of string?
How can I get Zope to work with my international character set?
Alexander Staubo http://www.mop.no/~alex/ mailto:redhand@mop.no
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