Ah, ok, sorry if that was the original way of doing it, if it's done internally, I wholeheartedly support it. The only thing that bothers me in that case is unicode in the *domain* part of the URI. If you're doing the conversion inside IS_URL, it has to be smart enough to replace the domain part with punycode first, and then encode the rest by quoting it.
On Nov 30, 1:51 pm, Jonathan Benn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Achipa, > > On Nov 30, 2:03 pm, achipa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The idea of unicode is not to care about encodings, a ж should be a ж > > no matter what is ithe underlying encoding, utf8, cp1251 or anything > > else capable of actually displaying that glyph. This is where people > > start mixing the terms unicode and, say, utf-8. IS_URL should > > certainly have unicode as the parameter, however, here lies the > > dilemma - if you pass validation (as an escaped unicode object), IMHO > > you should insert *that*, escaped, RFC compliant unicode string into > > the database, and not the 'pretty' utf8 one. This is what I'm talking > > about when saying helpers beign smart enough to help human-friendly > > use and display, but to remain standards compliant in the process. I > > hope I make sense as it's a pretty convoluted topic, encodings are > > known to cause serious headache on exposure :) > > I understand what you mean, and you're making sense. Fortunately, the > way validators works makes this easy to implement. In fact, doing what > you're suggesting is already part of my suggestion for unicode_to_latin > (). When you execute a validator, it potentially changes the input > string. So for example: > > IS_URL(some_valid_unicode_url) => returns => > (latin_character_set_string, None) > IS_URL(invalid_unicode_url) => returns => (invalid_unicode_url, > error_message) > > So if you use IS_URL as your validator for database input, it *is* a > latin string that will actually be stored in the database. > > Would anyone find this kind of program behaviour harmful or annoying? > > Thanks, > > --Jonathan --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py Web Framework" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/web2py?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
