[Zope] Zope & international characters

mindlace mindlace@imeme.net
Fri, 14 Apr 2000 10:31:11 -0600


Rik Hoekstra wrote:
> 
> >Hi there,
> >I don't know if this has ever asked before...
> >I got Zcatalog on my Zope site and it runs beutifully
> >EXCEPT that it will only find words that are in English
> >-and 80% of my site is in Greek !
> 
> The finding part seems to imply you use the Catalog. If so, that is right,
> the Catalog only accepts standard ascii (as used for English). And in
> general, python (the language Zope works with) does not handle unicode. All
> this will probably change in the (not too far) future, but for now, there is
> not much to be done about it I'm afraid.

This seems odd to me, as I've successfully used Catalog on portuguese
words that have accents.  I set the locale using -L when starting up
zope, and everything works fine.

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