[z3-five] unicodes and strings in Zope 2.9's ZPT with Zope 3's i18n

[Roman Susi]

Chris Withers wrote:

> Roman Susi wrote:
>
>> Maciej Wisniowski wrote:
>>
>>>> Well, I actually buckled and put a sitecustomize.py on the python 
>>>> path that chanded the default codec from ascii to utf-8.
>>>>
>>> Is this possible to see that code? I'm very interested in it :)
>>
>>
>> I know people sometimes do it, but it makes code unportable 
>
>
> How so? None of the code that could usefully be ported from this 
> project relies on this fact (it all just runs off unicode), but the 
> project specific code does, and I think that's a safe assumption to 
> make, given what I've already stated...

http://blog.ianbicking.org/illusive-setdefaultencoding.html?version=1%3fversion%3d1

But perhaps my fears arent wellgrounded - I never used sitecustomize as 
it somehow feels bad...

>> and could
>> cause other subtle problems.
>
>
> Such as? (or is this just goat/chicken worship?)

People more experienced than me warned against that (it was on the 
Russian Python-Zope list 
http://itconnection.ru/pipermail/zopyrus/2006-April/083160.html). Using 
sitecustomize means it should be remembered somehow on each installation 
and upgrade. If this is no problem - then it is no problem.


Roman