[Zope] Unicode Error

[Tino Wildenhain]

Hi,

--On Samstag, 2. November 2002 20:15 +0000 Toby Dickenson 
<tdickenson@geminidataloggers.com> wrote:

> On Saturday 02 November 2002 1:48 am, Tino Wildenhain wrote:
>
>> 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?
>
> That would make it difficult to write reliable portable Python code. It
> is a  good thing that Python has predictable behaviour for things like
> (string+integer), a local-sensitive or user-sensitive default encoding
> would  make (plain string+unicode string) unpredictable.

*think* *think* *think*

Sorry, I cannot see how this would be unpredictable.
Ascii-users will use only thier ascii charset information and -
with or without locales - get their ascii unicode strings concenated. Fine.

international users who whould have no locales - this would bring them the 
same error
they are getting now -> default would be ascii

international users with locales setting would assume they can use every
allowed character in their encoding - because of locales sensitiveness
it would happen to work as expected. In every module.

If some modules has seriously requirements to depend on a specific encoding
it should explicitely use encode('ascii') on it.

I'm open to comments on what I might have overlooked.

Regards
Tino