[Zope] How to convert Zope instance charset?

[Andreas Jung]

--On Montag, 25. April 2005 10:42 Uhr +0200 Daniel Dekany 
<ddekany at freemail.hu> wrote:

>
> As someone who works often with Java I absolutely agree with it. Just I
> don't know how to do it with Zope/Plone/other 3rd party products (not
> written by me), since they use not unicode strings. I don't know, maybe
> it can be specified for Python that it uses unicode for plain strings as
> well, but anybody has successfully done that with Zope? Like, what about
> the C parts of Zope then?

Well back in the history of Zope there was only ascii and Python had no 
unicode
support. Unicode support moved into Zope over time. Some parts are still 
having problems
and these problems will never be solved completely. The sources are just 
too old.
But there is usually a good way to get around a particular problem. Zope 3 
in contrast
uses Unicode everywhere...so it is clean by design. Unfortunately there is 
no magic
treat-all-my-strings-as-unicode-strings in Python. So if you still have a 
specific problem
ask again and we might help. In your case it should be easy to convert your 
utf8 data
to unicode strings and sort then using the existing methods.

Andreas
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