[Zope] ZWiki do not support utf-8

Dieter Maurer dieter@handshake.de
Sun, 21 May 2000 09:59:35 +0200 (CEST)


Sin Hang Kin writes:
 > I am trying to use zWiki with Chinese. However, I found out that zwiki &
 > quote some bytes of the utf-8, this break the string. For example, the utf-8
 > character is composed by three bytes : abc, but zwiki quote one of the byte
 > a, then it comes out as &something;bc which is not a valid utf-8 char.
 > 
 > Is this a common zope behavior  or just zwiki problem? If it is zwiki, how
 > can I fix it?
I fear, you have to wait some more months.

The underlying programming language, Python, and its regular
expressions are not yet unicode (UTF-8) aware.
This will change with Python 1.6 expected to be released
near the middle of the year.

Dieter