[Zope-dev] [Zope 2.10] ZPT going Unicode

[Martijn Faassen]

Andreas Jung wrote:
> Thoughts?

All these changes seem to be the right thing. This will make unicode 
life in Zope a lot easier.

I worry about backward compatibility though.

Some code (such as PlacelessTranslationService) is doing wild things 
like monkeypatching the ZPT engine so that incoming unicode is encoded 
into UTF-8 during page template execution. I.e. the principle is quite 
different from that of Zope 2 itself, where the publisher takes care of 
translating things into an encoded string upon output. Since Silva 
doesn't use PTS anymore I don't worry about this, but Plone developers 
might.

Changing the default encoding of Zope to UTF-8 might break a lot of 
assumptions in people's code.

What about input? If I have an input form, browsers tend to submit in 
the encoding that the form as in, for instance UTF-8. This means I get 
UTF-8 strings into my request.

Now, if I have code that takes something from that request and displays 
it in a unicode page template, you'd have a problem, as you'd be mixing 
UTF-8 with unicode there. Again this might result in a lot of broken code.

Regards,

Martijn