Andreas Jung writes:
On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 09:21:50PM +0200, Dieter Maurer wrote:
Andreas Jung writes:
Is it possible to use umlauts in file names?
No (at least not without hacking the corresponding check for valid Ids). Should we kill this restriction?
I think/hope it is no longer necessary.
We discussed this problem last year and the key question was, what characters should be allowed: utf-8, latin-1, iso-8859-X.. Looks like a configuration/startup parameter, similar to "-L". It would control the default encoding of (all) non-Unicode strings inside Zope -- similar to Python's "default_encoding".
or whatever. I would really love to see the restriction lifted. However lifting the restriction must not break existing code. Lifting a restriction is not likely to break existing code. Of course, we must be careful when URLs are constructed. When I looked at it for the last time, it appeared to correctly quote the components. But there may be lots of places...
Dieter