[Zope-Checkins] CVS: Zope/doc - CHANGES.txt:1.535.2.85

[Toby Dickenson]

Update of /cvs-repository/Zope/doc
In directory cvs.zope.org:/tmp/cvs-serv7294/doc

Modified Files:
      Tag: Zope-2_6-branch
	CHANGES.txt 
Log Message:
merged toby-charset-branch - bug fixes for non-latin1 users who cant use unicode yet

=== Zope/doc/CHANGES.txt 1.535.2.84 => 1.535.2.85 ===
--- Zope/doc/CHANGES.txt:1.535.2.84	Tue Jan 21 09:44:35 2003
+++ Zope/doc/CHANGES.txt	Tue Jan 28 10:00:36 2003
@@ -11,6 +11,16 @@
       - DateTime objects now have a tzoffset() method that returns the objects
         timezones offset from GMT in seconds.
 
+      - Fixed bug that caused problems for non-latin1 users who are not
+        yet using unicode. plain string properties were always rendered as
+        latin-1. The management_page_charset property is now an officially
+        accepted migration tool.
+        A disadvantage of this change is that it is no longer possible
+        to supply an initial value to unicode properties.
+        This fixes Collector #737, #598, and #623
+        This change was debated here:
+        http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope-dev/2002-December/018261.html
+
     Bugs Fixed
 
       - Transience's '_getCurrentBucket' implementation had a bug which