[Zope] What's "decodestring" in User.py line 388 for? or Begging a step for Internationaliztion. Internationaliztion.

Mon, 08 Feb 1999 21:44:02 +0900

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I've got an binascii.Error as the attached file. What I did was to get
this error is the following.

1. Adding to a user folder a 'New User'  whose id is composed of
non-ascii characters. And there were no errors(this is true when I did
the same to a user db).

2. Trying to access manage page as that 'New User'

What I can see from the source code is 'v'(=validate) in User.py line
388 calls python builtin module base64. And since base64 is 'built-in'
and I'm an awfull newbie, I can not guess what is v, decodestring, and
base64 do(Obviously, 'v' get name & password for authentication).
Ansorry situation. I wish Guido had implemented base64 in python not in
C. ....

So if anybody knows what v does with what kind of data reveal his sacred
knowledge, I'd like to write a python bits to solve this problem(for
those with non-ascii character names).

I suggest this will be the 1st step for internalization of Zope(though
only two guy from Chech & France and me seems interested in that). Quite
weeks ago, I did some ugly hack to circumvent a id checking method to be
able to add object whose id is composed of non-ascii characters. For IE
and Netscape Korean version, there was no problem with that hack. But
now I abandoned it, 'cause it's non-standard to use non-ascii chars in
URL(very sorry situation though :(. But user's name is not a object id
but a part of qurry string. So it seems(at least to me) not a violation
of the standard. Being able to type in one's own name in his or her own
language is very^3 user-friendly, don't you think so?

for Zopal revelation, LEE Kwan Soo.

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<title>binascii.Error</title>
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Sorry, an error occurred.<p>
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Traceback (innermost last):
  File /home/brian/temp/build/tmp_build/Zope-1.9.0-linux2-x86/lib/python/ZPublisher/Publish.py, line 879, in publish_module
  File /home/brian/temp/build/tmp_build/Zope-1.9.0-linux2-x86/lib/python/ZPublisher/Publish.py, line 520, in publish
    (Info: /manage)
  File /home/brian/temp/build/tmp_build/Zope-1.9.0-linux2-x86/lib/python/AccessControl/User.py, line 388, in validate
    (Object: Navigation)
  File /home/brian/temp/build/tmp_build/Zope-1.9.0-linux2-x86/lib/python1.5/base64.py, line 46, in decodestring
  File /home/brian/temp/build/tmp_build/Zope-1.9.0-linux2-x86/lib/python1.5/base64.py, line 32, in decode
Error: Incorrect padding

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