[Zope-dev] Strange Characters and Zope

[Brian Hooper]

>From the standpoint of a Japanese Zope user:

Would it be unreasonable to suggest that the default MIME type assigned
by Zope to documents containing 'binary' information (i.e. 8-bit
characters) be something other than 'application/x-octet-stream'?  I
don't know if there's a better way of doing this, but since most Zope
documents don't have a file extension, the MIME type of the document is
detected by looking at the content in the case of DTML Documents and
Methods - I don't know what the case is with other non-US character
sets, but this cause me problems...

My temporary fix is to change the default MIME type (in
$ZOPE/lib/python/OFS/content_types.py) to 'text/html'.  That way, my
Japanese documents come out in Japanese.

-Brian Hooper
Digital Garage, Inc.

Robin Becker <robin@jessikat.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> In article <37A361B2.45A9E28C@ibm.net>, Itamar S.-T. <itamars@ibm.net>
> writes
> >Robin Becker wrote:
> >> 
> >> I was demonstrating the implementation in Zope of my Generational
> >> Accounting web model. The Academic saw how marvellous it was and wanted
> >> immediately to change some of the text in the pages. It was in word so I
> >> said 'save as html' and then we'll hack it into the database pages.
> >> Foolish me. Word inserts many strange characters into it's version of
> >> HTML. One of them being ? character 0x92. This causes the page to start
> >> flinging out save as dialogs.
> >> 
> >> Can someone enlighten me as to what characters may be safely
> >> embedded/used in Zope DTML. We figured 0x92 fairly easily. The next
> >> document had something else weird and I haven't yet found out what.
> >
> >There's utility somewhere, IIRC, that fixes all those wierd chars from
> >Windows in HTML.  Try searching through Freshmeat.
> >
> the upshot of this is don't use word to save as html as it won't be
> transferable to netscape via zope.
> -- 
> Robin Becker
> 
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