[Zope3-Users] Re: Zwiki issues with Unicode text pasted from Word

[Derrick Hudson]

I experienced this problem too.  I thought I fixed or worked around it
a while ago, though.  I may have just hacked my system.

Some notes about this:
    - it is the output (view) that produces the error
    - add and edit work fine
    - Word has nothing to do with the problem (any source of non-ascii
        data will have the same effect)
    - I don't remember if the problem is in zwiki or docutils

Hmm, now that I think about it, the problem might be fixed in a newer
version of docutils.  I'll make a note to revisit this when I have
a few minutes.  If you don't want to wait, you might search the
zope3-dev list and the Collector to see if I mentioned it there.

HTH,
-D


On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 09:32:58AM -0400, Joel Moxley wrote:
| Thank you Duncan and Gary for your informative replies yesterday.  I'm
| working on understanding and implementing your input.
| 
| In the meantime, I'm having an issue with my zwiki.  I checked on
| google, and I do not find this as a known issue.  I have not had time
| to extensively document the behavior, but I can report the following:
| 
| My zwiki page bombed (System Error) when a user copied and pasted a
| paragraph from Microsoft Word into the edit form of the wiki page. 
| After some quick debugging, I found two unicode characters to be the
| problem:
| 
| Unicode characters 2103 and 2019 ("right single quotation mark" and
| "en dash", respectively).
| 
| Thus, whenever we have apostrophes and dashes in Word, they will kill
| the wiki page when copied in the edit form.  Which is suboptimal :)
| 
| I pasted the traceback here:
| http://paste.plone.org/289
| 
| which culminates in "UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode
| character u'\u2013' in
| position 4104: ordinal not in range(128)"
| 
| Clearly, the wiki just does not know how to encode these characters. 
| Anyways, a workaround or fix would be very nice because one of the
| main reason I wanted the wiki was to not have to deal with revisions
| in Word.
| 
| Thanks,
| Joel
| 
| PS: This is zope-3.1final and zwiki-3.0.0

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