[Zope] RE: [*Mostly* SOLVED] RE: Help with Japanese rendering in Zope...?

[Toby Dickenson]

On Thursday 11 December 2003 06:24, Bjorn Stabell wrote:

> I'd still keep <dtml-var "u''"> in there.  It may work fine now, but I
> think you may have trouble with some documents where Japanese or Unicode
> text shows up further into the document; at that point ZPublisher may
> already have started writing something out and by that time it's too
> late to switch the encoding.

Position of <dtml-var "u' '"> is not important - Your method will have 
computed the whole document before ZPublisher starts to return anything to 
the client.

The real reason for it is to *ensure* that the return value from your dtml is 
unicode. DTML will return a unicode object if any of its components are 
unicode, but a plain string otherwise. (and ZPublishers encoding process wont 
kick in unless it recieves a unicode object from your method). This 
throw-away unicode object guards against degenerate cases (for example, maybe 
an *empty* search results page) where your DTML might otherwise never see a 
unicode object.

-- 
Toby Dickenson