[Zope] ZMI Editor Corruption

Dan Shafer pydan@danshafer.com
Sun, 19 May 2002 21:22:25 -0700


So it's not a known, documented problem, eh? OK, I'll try Opera for a while.
At 08:29 PM 5/19/2002 -0400, Chris McDonough wrote:
>Sounds like a browser problem to me.  If it continues, try using a
>different browser for a while to see if it does things differently.
>
>On Sun, 2002-05-19 at 20:22, Dan Shafer wrote:
> > I edit my Zope sites primarily on my OS X system, occasionally using Win2k.
> >
> > Yesterday, I began noticing some unusual crud showing up in the Python
> > script files I was working with on OS X. The first thing I noted was that
> > the first few characters of the first line of a script had just
> > disappeared. I went to a text file copy of the script on my local drive 
> and
> > copied the missing characters, went back to Zope and pasted them.
> >
> > Instead of the pasted characters showing up, I'd see several unprintable
> > characters. You know, little rectangles, symbols, etc.
> >
> > I must have spent 15 minutes with the stupid thing trying to isolate the
> > problem. I even re-copied the entire script and pasted it. It never got 
> any
> > better.
> >
> > Finally, I deleted the script, created a new object of the same name, and
> > then pasted in the file on my disk. That appears to have worked.
> >
> > Is this documented behavior? Is my data.fs file perhaps corrupt? Any 
> insights?
> >
> >
> >
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