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

[Martijn Faassen]

Chris Withers wrote:
> Chris Withers wrote:
>> All of these suck a lot. Can we really do nothing better?
> 
> Well, I actually buckled and put a sitecustomize.py on the python path 
> that chanded the default codec from ascii to utf-8.
> 
> I feel comfortable enough doing that with this project because I _know_ 
> we've taken a lot of care to make sure that everything that's stored is 
> stored utf-8 encoded.
> 
> If you're unlucky enough to have mixed encodings stored in strings, 
> paticularly in zodb or relational database, then you're basically fucked ;-)

This is an extremely dangerous option indeed, as it may break libraries 
which depend on Python's behavior being differently.

Regards,

Martijn