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

[Chris Withers]

Maciej Wiśniowski wrote:
> I've already found some examples of sitecustomize.py that
> change defaultencoding.
> We're using windows and linux so it may be unportable, but
> I think it may be still helpful in some cases.

I don't think the OS has anything to do with this...

> Maybe it should be a option in zope.conf that will allow to
> change this behaviour. 

nah, it needs to happen way before then, hence sitecustomize.py

>> Unicode is more fun also.
>>
> But is more difficult especially for begineers and
> especially in Zope2. It's a bit strange to write
> strings with u'. I've never seen this in other languages.

Yes, Python 3000 will fix this...

> for data stored in attributes and for data
> retrieved from database and be careful to use
> u'...' strings instead of '...'.

Well, that's only true for constants. Otherwise, you just need to make 
sure you turn strings into unicodes as soon as possible...

cheers,

Chris

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