[z3-five] Re: Extended characters in forms

[Lennart Regebro]

On 5/12/05, Lennart Regebro <regebro at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5/11/05, Lennart Regebro <regebro at gmail.com> wrote:
> > This does not work. If you have a character like ä in a form, the
> > widgets try to do unicode(input) on it and you get a
> > UnicodeDecodeError, 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe5 in position
> > 0: ordinal not in range(128).
> >
> > How to fix?
> 
> No-one?
> 
> So far I have three ideas, none of the good:
> 1. Force people to change the default encoing in site.py.
> 2. Monkey-patch Zope3 to stop it from converting everything to unicode.
> 3. Do some magic so everything in these forms is converted to unicode
> with the charset encoding in the for request.

I tried #3, and you get problems with things that are for example
lists of strings, so that didn't work.

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