Also, watcha out for the gotcha in BaseResponse.py, which can end up doing a default encoding to latin-1 in some circumstances. I really want to make that hard coded thing configurable in zope.conf at some stage... Chris Pascal Peregrina wrote:
I see... And what python function would you use for conversion ?
I made some tests and was surprised of the results... I switched ZMI to UTF-8 (management_page_charset) and edited some of my documents / properties and all went fine. The generated documents are still sent to browsers as iso-8859-1, and are not broken.
So my question would be : which valid UTF-8 characters (for typical Western languages like English, French, Spanish, ...) would be invalid in iso-8859-1 ?
Last thing, if ZMI is switched to UTF-8, then what is the difference between ustring/string, etc properties ?
Thanks.
Pascal
-----Message d'origine----- De : zope-bounces@zope.org [mailto:zope-bounces@zope.org]De la part de Max M Envoyé : mardi 13 septembre 2005 14:51 À : zope@zope.org Objet : [Zope] Re: Zope iso-8859-1 to utf-8
Pascal Peregrina wrote:
Hi,
I have been running a Zope installation for 2 years, so there are now lots of objects, properties, etc...
I would like to know what are the possible issues I may have to face if I change the default encoding for iso-8859-1 to utf-8 in ZMI.
You must write a script that converts any property on any object in your site that is latin-1 to utf-8.
So first find all objects you use. See what types they are.
Find all text and string attributes on those opjects.
Write a function that converts from latin to utf and run that on every object.
The hard part will be finding all the attributes, but perhaps you can write a method that can help find those properties for you using introspection.
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