[z3-five] Re: Extended characters in forms

[yuppie]

Philipp von Weitershausen wrote:
> Lennart Regebro wrote:
> 
>> 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.
> 
> 
> After finally having found some time to look at the issue myself, I have 
> to add to this discussion:
> 
> * None of the three points above provide a sensible solution.
> 
[...]
> My suggestion is we re-implement the text widgets by subclassing the 
> original ones and override the methods that do the unicode() conversion 
> to do sane unicode decoding. [...] 

I still don't understand what's wrong with #3 (converting the form data 
in EditView). Reimplementing the text widgets sounds like overkill.

Cheers, Yuppie