Hi. I have observed a sporadic Unicode related bug that appears to be browser specific. It causes a db.put() to fail. I am not doing anything unusual with the incoming text except to put it in a variable, and then store in a record. I have determined that this issue is browser specific, and probably also related to the user's configuration for language preferences etc.
I have run out of ideas for tracking this down. My understanding of the CGI interface is that it is supposed to force everything to UTF-8 by default. It would be nice to be able to set some global options to manage encodings on incoming queries. I suspect what is going on is the texts are being sent in something besides UTF-8 but Python thinks they are Unicode. Unfortunately, Python crashes when in a situation like this. It would be far better if the CGI interface would make a best effort to deal with the incoming text, inserting garbage characters where necessary. That is "less damaging" than a outright failure, as most people can live with an occasional [] in place of a tilde, etc. On this subject, there really needs to be better documentation on Unicode, encoding conversions, etc. It is poorly documented in Python also, and I am sure a lot of people are making the same mistakes in trying to figure out what works and what breaks. Thanks, Brian McConnell --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
