[Zope] FW: [Zope] Dealing with international character sets

[Alexander Staubo]

Sorry for having to repost this, but I have not found an answer (nor
received any response). Is this a Python thing, or a Zope thing? Does
Zope/Python provide any suitable translation APIs for international
character sets?

Alexander Staubo
http://www.mop.no/~alex/
mailto:redhand@mop.no

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Alexander Staubo [mailto:alex@mop.no]
>Sent: 6. mai 1999 21:11
>To: zope@zope.org
>Subject: [Zope] Dealing with international character sets
>
>
>I note that Zope is converting strings with certain international
>characters into its own notation. Specifically, in my country our
>alphabet contains three additional characters. For example, "oslash"
>(\0xF8 on my system), which Zope expands into "\370". Oddly enough Zope
>does not have the same problem with other international characters such
>as accented letters, or the German alphabet.
>
>Now, this is extremely inconvenient when dealing with database tables,
>because obvious such things as name lookup won't work, and besides, any
>strings that are put into the table fields will use Zope syntax, not a
>"proper" character set (eg., ISO-8859-1, which is the one we use here).
>Is there a solution? For example, a function to convert the Zope string
>back to my kind of string?
>
>How can I get Zope to work with my international character set?
>
>Alexander Staubo
>http://www.mop.no/~alex/
>mailto:redhand@mop.no
>
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