[Zope] Unicode Error

[Dieter Maurer]

Toby Dickenson writes:
 > > ...
 > > Why isnt a locales sensitive version the default?
 > 
 > That would make it difficult to write reliable portable Python code.
I (and probably a high percentage of Python users)
am usually uninterested to write portable Python code.

I am *really* interested to write uncluttered code that works in my standard
environment (as already noted: almost all in the filesystem
and all devices use Latin-1 encoding). Therefore, I want a way
to declare to Python what this standard environment is.
And I feel these "Unicode conversion errors" really stupid
when I interactively work with Python.

Authors of modules that should be used internationally are free to set
their default encoding to the least common denominator: ASCII.


I am able to patch Python to give it back its "setdefaultencoding"
should Guido decide to remove it. And I can publish the necessary
patch. But, I doubt that we should need such a patch.


Dieter