[Zope] Re: unicode and zope

[Shan Duncan]

Thanks for the tip.  

In my case I had a problem with ZPT returning the error.  I used
iso-8859-1 as the default as that is the character set for the 
version of MySQL server I am running.

As I understand it mysql 4.1 will have unicode support.

Cheers,

-Shan


On Wed, 4 Feb 2004, Toby Dickenson wrote:

> On Wednesday 04 February 2004 15:18, Andrew Altepeter wrote:
> > (bringing this back on the list...)
> >
> > Hi Shan,
> >
> > It appears that the steps you outlined have solved my issue(s) too.
> 
> Youve probably swapped your original problems for a set of different ones. 
> This does make some things easier so I understand the temptation to use it, 
> but it is not a supported configuration for Zope or python :-(
> 
> > When the form is submitted
> > with these unicode characters in it, my script raises a UnicodeError
> > when ZMySQLDA apparrently attempts to change the encoding to ascii.
> 
> add a :utf8:ustring marshalling tag on the end of your field, and your 
> variable will hold a unicode object.
> 
> unicode objects have a .encode() method, which will be useful if your database 
> adapter needs an 8-bit string.
> 
>