[py-dev] Unicode support in py.log

[Grig Gheorghiu]

Hi, Holger

--- holger krekel <hpk at trillke.net> wrote:

> Hi Grig! 
> 
> On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 08:11 -0700, Grig Gheorghiu wrote:
> > I was using the default STDOUT consumer in py.log when I ran into a
> > problem printing strings that contain non-ASCII characters. I think
> we
> > should modify at a minimum the 'content' method of the Message
> class in
> > producer.py so that it uses unicode as opposed to str. Here's what
> I
> > did temporarily to get past my problem:
> > 
> > def content(self):
> >     return " ".join(map(unicode, self.args)).encode('utf-8')
> >
> > Of course, the encoding should be configurable, but I'm not sure if
> > it's best to have it as a global variable in producer.py or some
> other
> > way.
> 
> Hum, i am not sure about the best way to go about unicode handling in
> 
> py.log context.  I guess that content() should always return 
> a unicode object and the log consumer should care about encodings. 
> And the default STDOUT/STDERR consumer should convert to the system 
> encoding.  If a user wants something different he has to register
> an appropriate consumer.  makes sense? 
> 
>     holger
> 

Yes, that makes a lot of sense. I'll give it a shot and I'll let you
know if I run into any more issues.

Grig