Ben Avery wrote at 2003-5-28 11:48 +0100:

I'm stuck on a problem with our production site (in the UK)

We have a client application sending data to a Zope server by XML-RPC. Our users have been trying to send text descriptions including the British Pound symbol £. But this not being sent or received correctly.

Has anyone found this problem with £, or any other region-specific characters. I have read that it's possible to use XML-RPC with unicode, but have been unable to find exactly how to do this with Zope.

I was very disappointed about the lack of robustness of XML-RPC with respect to supported characters in strings. I ended up encoding all strings via "base64". In the future, I will use pickle serialization rather than XML-RPC unless one of the partners is not a Python application. Dieter