[Zope-dev] RFV: Unicode in Zope 2

[Martijn Faassen]

Andreas Jung wrote:

> --On 9. Dezember 2005 10:11:42 -0500 Jim Fulton <jim at zope.com> wrote:
> 
>>
>> We need to migrate Zope 2 to use a similar strategy.  We need volunteers
>> to brainstorm how this can be done and make one or more proposals.
>> This is likely a prerequisite for finishing the publisher and ZPT
>> work.

> 
> My ZPT integration of the Z3 templates will definitely only allow 
> unicode. Non-unicode content must pass either an encoding or accept that 
> it will be converted using utf8 as default encoding to unicode.

Hm, so it auto-decodes non-unicode strings using UTF-8? That's a bit 
dangerous, as you suppress a large class of unicode errors in the code. 
Code that creates UTF-8 strings will be silently accepted. Not as bad as 
what PTS does, at least the output of the ZPT will be unicode, but scary 
nonetheless.

Do you have any impression of how compatible is your code is with 
existing large Zope 2 codebases by the way?

Regards,

Martijn