On 17-aug-2006, at 1:08, Bill de hÓra wrote:
> like wanting to serve utf8 rss feeds, but have latin1 come > in and out of mysql. Might seem very extreme, but I would love to chime in. Maybe it would be wise to go even further, whereby: 1. Hardcode Django to output and input UTF-8 as the most useful for interop 1a. Any case where the developer might expect different input (for instance almost all OPML files are still exported as ISO due to idyosyncrastic way Radio worked back in the day) has to be known to him and handled explicittly 1b. Honor the charset headers sent in the request for transcoding 1c. Allow everyone who wants to output other charsets to cry and perish. 2. Stick the utf-8 output charset anywhere where it's possible (headers, page head...). 2. Allow the DB to be in another encoding for databases that support it. For instance, MySQL and Postgress will transcode the strings for the client on the fly, so you can do interop with them in UTF-8 even when they are in a different encoding. 3. Assume all templates are in UTF-8 as well because text editors have much more success dealing with it them that way. Transcode templates on read into unicode strings. 4. As a consequence of 1, let DEFAULT_CHARSET go. Too many choices really hurt here. 5. As a consequence of 1, deprecate the DATABASE_CHARSET I sent in as a patch and make it the default, so that all drivers switch their database clients to the most suitable Unicode form. SQLite has to be compiled with Unicode support, this has to be mentioned in the docs. 5. Internally, work with unicode strings exclusively (after transcoding the request and the template). Response should be python unicode as well up until the moment it gets sent out. Important to note is that every database driver has to be scrutinized for whether it returns unicode strings proper. I know, it seems so nice to be liberal and allow people to choose their encoding but just too many situations prove that to be the Wrong Choice. -- Julian 'Julik' Tarkhanov please send all personal mail to me at julik.nl --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
