[Zope] Zope newbie.... unicode problem

[Dieter Maurer]

Tyler Nally wrote at 2006-11-29 15:49 -0500:
> ...
>When serving a web page, we get an error that involves the 
>fetching and display of a document to the browser. Evidently, 
>it's choking on some unicode bytes when it's expecting plain 
>ascii.  

Unfortunately, this is a *VERY* frequent problem.

It occurs when a template mixes unicode and some non unicode
string containing non ASCII characters.

There are several options:

  *  Do not use unicode at all -- always convert to something
     like your "site encoding"

  *  Use unicode whenever you handle text

  *  Set Python's "defaultencoding" to your "site encoding"
     (provided you have a consistent site encoding)

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Dieter