[Zope] Problem importing xml backup file

[Dieter Maurer]

Vittorio Manfredini wrote at 2007-7-20 12:06 +0200:
>I have to upgrade to a new server and I export my zope in the xml file using 
>the export option.
>
>On the old system I use zope 2.7 and python 2.4.3, on the new system I use 
>opensuse 10.2 with python 2.4.4 (recompiled by me) and zope 2.10.
>
>When I try to import the file I receive the following error :
>
>Site Error
>
>An error was encountered while publishing this resource.
>
>Error Type: UnicodeDecodeError
>Error Value: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xa1 in position 34: ordinal not 
>in range(128)

This looks like a well known problem with xml exports (and XML in general --
it is not easy to generate a valid XML document with character content
of unknown encoding).

Try to use a binary export (no XML) -- or even better, copy the
storage file.



-- 
Dieter