Tres Seaver wrote at 2008-4-12 21:43 -0400: > ... >> Dieter Maurer wrote: >>> Wichert Akkerman wrote at 2008-4-7 20:45 +0200: >>>> ... >>>>> Almost surely, Alexander wants to ask why Zope does not allow >>>>> non-ASCII characters in ids. >>>>> >>>>> And, in fact, there are only two reasons: >>>>> >>>>> * lazyness of the Zope developpers: >>>>> >>>>> without the restriction to ASCII characters >>>>> careful quoting (and unquoting) is necessary >>>>> in order to adhere to RFC 2396 (the modern uri syntax specification) >>>> This is becoming increasingly painful >>> I will soon have a patch against Zope 2.11b1 >>> which gets rid of this restriction. >>> >>> If there is consense, I can add it to the Zope repository. >> >> +1 from my side. Saves me the work to cleanup my own dirty >> patch :-)) > >- -1 without *careful* analysis of how the patch is going to break >existing applications which rely on the fact that IDs are only ASCII >(and therefore don't need to be quoted). At a minimum, this kind of >change is going to require documenting the risks, and getting soem >feedback, before any merge to a production release. > >Please check the patch in on a "private" branch and ask for comments here.
Implemented on "http://svn.zope.org/Zope/branches/dm-arbitrary-ids/". -- Dieter _______________________________________________ Zope-Dev maillist - Zope-Dev@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope )