[Zope3-dev] test errors due to ascii defaultencoding assumption

[Stephan Richter]

On Wednesday 19 October 2005 03:25, Stefan Rank wrote:
> - would it make sense to put::
>
>      reload(sys)
>      sys.setdefaultencoding('ascii')
>
>    there instead?
>    To allow the tests to run also on non-default systems.

Using reload is a big no-no.

> - does a non-ascii defaultencoding pose a risk for running Zope3?

Let's give some Python gurus (Fred, Jim,...?) some chance to reply to this. 
but I would tend to say that we will not support non-default systems. It is 
just too hard to anticipate all combinations out there.

Regards,
Stephan
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