[Zope] Odd Unicode error

[David Chandek-Stark]

There's also Python's unicode(). I've used it successfully with an
External Method to integrate some external code with a ZPT.

Cheers,
David

Michael Ekstrand wrote:
> I'm getting some odd Unicode errors in the Zope application I'm 
> developing.
> 
> The application has an Edit page which uses HTMLArea to provide a 
> WYSIWYG interface to editing an HTML snippet. This snippet is then 
> saved, and a Page Template reads it and inserts its contents when the 
> page is viewed.
> 
> Sometimes, after editing and saving a page, when I view it, I get a 
> UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xa0 in position 
> <some position>: ordinal not in range(128).
> 
> As near as I can tell, it's evidently receiving an invalid value from 
> the form. If I load the content in the management interface (where it's 
> displayed with a plain text area), and save it, the error goes away, 
> but usually comes back the next time it's edited with the general edit 
> page (with the HTMLArea).
> 
> What can be done about this error? Is there a way I can scrub the data 
> when I save it to force it to be valid? I've thought about using
> 
> content.replace('0xa0', ' ')
> 
> since it seems to be always 0xa0 that's causing the problem (and 
> consulting a Unicode table revealed that 0xa0 is some form of space 
> character), but I don't know if this is a complete enough solution.
> 
> TIA,
> -Michael
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David Chandek-Stark
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