[Zope-CMF] Re: [RFC] [Patch] GenericSetup and encodings

[yuppie]

Hi Florent!


Florent Guillaume wrote:
> 
> Let's not forget also that the goal in CMF 2 (I think) is to have all 
> content be unicode strings, never encoded ones. In that case 
> GenericSetup only has to deal with the XML file's encoding (always UTF-8 
> anyway) but that's all.

That's a long term goal. AFAICT nobody is working on it.

> CPS 3 was a pure-latin1 application for various historical reasons, so 
> we modified a number of I/O adapters so that they encode/decode properly 
> what GenericSetup works with. CPS 3.4 tends to remove the hardcoding of 
> latin-1 to the site's default_charset property, but that's not been 
> taken into account everywhere, although it should.
> 
> CPS 4 will be purely unicode, and won't need all that shit.

Also configuration data? I guess CPS 4 will still use some CMF tools and 
a lot of work will be necessary to make them play nice with unicode.


Cheers,

	Yuppie