[Zope-dev] UnicodeDecodeError problems with Zope 2.12.0b4

[Andreas Jung]

There is a related bug report on LP (with a controversial discussion)
about the issue (can't find the URL right now).

Andreas

On 21.08.09 21:40, Chris Withers wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I'm suffering with two different types of UnicodeDecodeError with a Zope 
> 2.12 project...
>
> The first type of problem occurs when a form is submitted and the form 
> fields contain encoded strings. Somewhere down the line I get:
>
>    Module zope.i18n, line 166, in interpolate
>    Module zope.i18n, line 161, in replace
> UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 5: 
> ordinal not in range(128)
>
> So, my question is how do I get strings submitted to the publisher 
> (ideally) end up as unicode objects not encoded strings? Failing that, 
> how do I find out what encoding the browser has provided?
>
> The second type of problem only occurs in IE and Safari, where viewing a 
> page that contains some non-ascii-able data:
>
>    Module ZPublisher.Publish, line 127, in publish
>    Module ZPublisher.mapply, line 77, in mapply
>    Module ZPublisher.Publish, line 47, in call_object
>    Module Products.Five.browser.metaconfigure, line 427, in __call__
>    Module Products.Five.browser.pagetemplatefile, line 126, in __call__
>    Module Products.Five.browser.pagetemplatefile, line 60, in __call__
>    Module zope.pagetemplate.pagetemplate, line 116, in pt_render
>     - Warning: Macro expansion failed
>     - Warning: <class 'zope.tal.taldefs.METALError'>: macro nesting 
> limit (100) exceeded by u'root/standard_template.pt/macros/nav'
>    Module StringIO, line 270, in getvalue
> UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 10: 
> ordinal not in range(128)
>
> Two things are weird here:
>
> - Why am I getting a macro nesting limit? This seems to be a recurring 
> problem (excuse the pun) with Zope 2.12 page templates where if there's 
> an error in a standard template, I get this error when a template that 
> uses it is rendered.
>
> - Why am I getting this decoding error only with these browsers? Firefox 
> and Chrome work just fine... Is the publisher doing something special 
> with a header these browsers send that IE and Safari are not? If so, how 
> do I make it do the "right thing" for IE and Safari?
>
> cheers,
>
> Chris
>
>   


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