Hi, In my experience you get this or similar errors if you try to convert normal strings in an encoding to unicode or vice versa. As I understand it, Python represents unicode internally as 16 bit integers. However, most content out there is coded as 8 bits chars. In order to convert the 8 bits chars to 16 bits integers, Python needs to know what encoding to use, ie some ISO number or utf-8 or so. If you don't supply an encoding, it will only use the standard ascii characters and give you an error like below on any char>127. Now, it seems you add a string msgText1 as unicode to the ZODB. Zope will try to convert the string of normal chars to unicode and fails. The best way around it is to first convert the string to unicode and than add it, like with msgText1Unicode = msgText1.decode( <your encoding> ) objRef.manage_addProperty('trString', msgText1Unicode, 'utext') Now, what you have to figure out, is what encoding you use. Your aliases.py file in the encodings directory of your Python distribution should give you an overview what's on offer. Douwe Osinga http://douweosinga.com

-----Original Message----- From: zope-bounces@zope.org [mailto:zope-bounces@zope.org]On Behalf Of Shashank Ashtikar Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2003 10:08 AM To: zope@zope.org Subject: [Zope] Unicode Error ASCII -> decoding error: ordinal not inrange(128)

Hello friends,

I am trying to import unicode content in to ZODB using an external method. This content is being added as a property.

The error that I am Getting is

Error Type: UnicodeError Error Value: ASCII decoding error: ordinal not in range(128)

I did some googling and I found out that this is because of pythons default encoding being ascii. But I did not come across any particular solution. The text that I am trying to import is Hindi language text (i.e. ISO - 10646 encoding.)

The actual traceback of the error is, Traceback (innermost last): Module ZPublisher.Publish, line 98, in publish Module ZPublisher.mapply, line 88, in mapply Module ZPublisher.Publish, line 39, in call_object Module Products.ExternalMethod.ExternalMethod, line 224, in __call__ - __traceback_info__: ((<TransparentFolder instance at 8cf1f68>, <HTTPRequest, URL=http://gnu.hbcse.tifr.res.in:9673/IndicTrans/indic2/Programs/i mport_po>), {}, (None,)) Module /usr/lib/zope/lib/python/Products/GNOWSYS/Extensions/po_import.py, line 47, in manage_addPoFile Module OFS.PropertyManager, line 247, in manage_addProperty Module ZPublisher.Converters, line 123, in __call__ UnicodeError: ASCII decoding error: ordinal not in range(128)

The line 47 in the external method is

objRef.manage_addProperty('trString', msgText1, 'utext')

here "objRef" is the object handle which I got using restrictedTraverse API "trString" is the property id and "msgText1" is the variable containing actual unicode string.

Any help or pointers???

Thanks in Advance.

Shashank

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