On Tue, 27 Aug 2002 13:23:28 +0100, Toby Dickenson <tdickenson@geminidataloggers.com> spoke forth:

On Tuesday 27 Aug 2002 12:44 pm, Andreas Jung wrote:

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You might try to set the default characterset encoding of your Python interpreter to "iso-8859-1". Python defaults to ascii (check your site.py file of your Python installation).

Does case sensitivity make a difference? I did "ISO-8859-1", following an email in one of the list archives. Still had the same problem.

Yes, but that may not be supported in future

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/i18n-sig/2000-July/000344.html

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

There are non-ascii characters stored in properties of folders and I'm trying to build an xml string to send off to a ParsedXML object for parsing. Do I need to encode with a different encoding? I'm basically doing:

XMLstring = XMLstring + new_part_from_folder_property

I guess that XMLString is a unicode object, and new_part_from_folder_property is a plain string that contains characters outside the ASCII range.

Actually, XMLstring is a str, and the new_part_from_folder_property is some weird string. I don't know the encoding type. I'm not I know how to find it either...

What character encoding have you used for those properties? You need to use code like:

XMLstring = XMLstring + unicode(new_part_from_folder_property,'UTF-8')

subsitute your real encoding for utf-8

Real encoding being the encoding type of the string right?

A better solution might be to store new_part_from_folder_property as a unicode object.

I have no control of that. It is a string from a zope property. -Chris

Andreas Jung writes:

You might try to set the default characterset encoding of your Python interpreter to "iso-8859-1". Python defaults to ascii (check your site.py file of your Python installation). "sitecustomize.py" (in "site-python") is better, as it does not move with new Python versions...

Dieter