[Zope] Character-set woes (possibly OT)

[Chris Withers]

Mark Barratt wrote:
> Pragmatic solution: define the character-set as iso-8859-1 in the page 
> containing the form which in turn contains the rich-text-editing widget, 

Well, every HTML page should specify the character set it's encoded with 
or it's not valid HTML <0.5 wink>

> Windows clients ensure that what 
> goes into the entry field conforms to that character-set, whether it's 
> typed or added by a paste operation from, say, Word.

That seems like it should always happen. What happens on non-windows 
clients?

> Remaining issues: UTF-8-encoded Unicode breaks big-time. I know this is 
> an issue for MySQL, and it seems to be an issue for Zope also.

What are the MySQL issues? What appear to be the Zope issues?

cheers,

Chris