[Zope] Unicode Error

[Dieter Maurer]

Tino Wildenhain writes:
 > I dont know why this code is in site.py:
 > 
 > encoding = "ascii" # Default value set by _PyUnicode_Init()
 > 
 > if 0:
 >     # Enable to support locale aware default string encodings.
 >     import locale
 >     loc = locale.getdefaultlocale()
 >     if loc[1]:
 >         encoding = loc[1]
 > 
 > if 0:
 >     # Enable to switch off string to Unicode coercion and implicit
 >     # Unicode to string conversion.
 >     encoding = "undefined"
 > 
 > if encoding != "ascii":
 >     sys.setdefaultencoding(encoding)
 > 
 > This implies modification of the installed code to change
 > default behavior. I would consider this as bad.
 > Why isnt a locales sensitive version the default?
Good! That would be a sensible default!


Dieter