[Zope-dev] Should PageTemplate._text be a unicode or an encoded string in Zope 2.9.3?

[Tino Wildenhain]

Chris Withers wrote:
> Andreas Jung wrote:
>>
>>> I've had problems when it's an encoded string, but that seems to be what
>>> is stored when you save a ZPT via the ZMI or WebDAV...
>>>
>> ZPT in pre-Zope 2.10 knows nothing about unicode...it can be anything :-)
> 
> And what about 2.10?
> 
> FWIW, this seems to be problematic due to Zope 3's i18n stuff returning 
> unicodes.
> 
> Prior to that, everything was a happy utf-8 encoded string.
> 
> What does Zope 2.10 do with all of this?
> 

This would be my next question too regarding the management_page_charset
cleanup I'm currently playing with. My vote would be to store unicode
where possible - so you dont screw up everything when you change
default_zpublisher_encoding in zope.conf.

Regards
Tino