[Zope-dev] Fw: Zope and unicode

[Andreas Jung]

the collector on collector.zope.org is the right place for patches.

-aj

--On Dienstag, 9. September 2003 21:42 Uhr +0400 Mikhail Kashkin 
<mailbox at xen.ru> wrote:

> Hello!
> Severals day ago I send that letter to Jim. May be it was bad idea, and
> Jim dont answer me anything.
>
> But problem still exists.
>
> Can you take me some advise how (and is that possible?) commit this patch
> to Zope 2.7 release?
> Who can do it?
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mikhail Kashkin" <mailbox at xen.ru>
> To: <jim at zope.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 11:29 PM
> Subject: Zope and unicode
>
>
>> Hello Jim!
>>
>> Zope from 2.6 release try to support unicode, but it make big problem to
>> developers who cann't use unicode (there is many reasons). We make patch
> to
>> Zope 2.7.b1, but it also work with 2.7.b2.
>>
>> What this patch do.
>>
>> 1. Now Zope think that all non-unicode types (string, text, etc) use only
>> latin-1 charset. It raise error when server encode sended data on
> Properties
>> (manage_properties) page (I haven't now traceback, but will send uppon
>> request).
>>
>> 2. "manage_properties" work only in utf-8 charset that make big problems
> to
>> set (and read) values in national encodings. "management_page_charset"
>> not resolve this problem it haven't effect on "manage_properties". Patch
>> set proper charset. By default it will be as active locale (-L key).
>>
>> 3. Many other bugfixes (all in description on russian).
>>
>> I'm sorry for my poor english, I would like to pay your attantion to this
>> patch. If you dont consider it
>> then the work with Zope for russian Zope-developers/users will be quite
>> complicated.
>>
>> I attach you full description to patch on russian, may be it will bu
> useful
>> for you.
>>
>> P.S.
>> I submit it as bug to bugtracker under #1037
>> (http://collector.zope.org/Zope/1037).
>>