[Zope] Problem with TextIndexNG
Dieter Maurer
dieter@handshake.de
Fri, 13 Jun 2003 21:30:04 +0200
Chris Withers wrote at 2003-6-12 14:54 +0100:
> Dieter Maurer wrote:
> > Thierry FLORAC wrote at 2003-6-11 15:54 +0200:
> > > ...
> > > When I enter a phrase query on this index (using double quotes) w=
ith some=20
> > > accentuated characters (like "d=E9partement"), I raise an excepti=
on :
> > > UnicodeError: ASCII encoding error: ordinal not in range (128).
> > >=20
> > > The same query without quotes doesn't fail.
> >=20
> > I hate these "encoding error" and get rid of them by
> > setting Python's default encoding in "sitecustomize.py"
> > to our default encoding.
>=20
> I never got my head around how to use these...
>=20
> What do you change and what have you changed it to?
My sitecustomize.py looks like:
import sys
sys.setdefaultencoding('iso-8859-1')
Nowadays, "iso-8859-15" would be more correct (it contains the Euro sign).
Dieter