On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 02:47:36PM +0200, Hanno Schlichting wrote: > On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 11:52 AM, Marius Gedminas <mar...@gedmin.as> wrote: > > I don't think I'll be able to work on it, but I think it's worth > > consideration: Unicode issues with Zope 2.12. I've seen these on at > > least three different Zope 2 sites built with a combination of TTW page > > templates, Python scripts and (sometimes) DTML documents: things like > > title attributes store their data as UTF-8 strings, while page templates > > insist on Unicode objects, resulting in errors all over the place. > > > > Those sites worked with Zope 2.9 and broke down after an upgrade to > > 2.12. That's a not very nice thing to do to your users... > > They broke down after the move to Zope 2.10.
Probably; the sites I helped upgrade skipped over 2.10 and 2.11. > We switched Zope 2 to > using the zope.tal / zope.tales packages in favor of Zope 2's own > implementation. As a result TAL uses Unicode internally ever since. > There's the whole unicoderesolver story, which allows you to implement > an application specific fallback story. We decided back then, that > dealing with this problem would be left to each application, as Zope 2 > in general has too little knowledge about your data - and nobody > volunteered to do any work on it ;) What if there's no application, just a Zope 2 website, using TTW scripts for implementing things like navigation menus? E.g. Page Templates come with a 'title' property of type string, not ustring, and there are big fat bold warnings not to delete it, which would be a prerequisite for creating an ustring version. > If you have a rather large application with third-party plugins and > have to deal with the encoded string to Unicode conversion, I think > such a long term upgrade story with policy changes happening around > major releases is the only way to go. If you have a pure-inhouse > application you can do a data and code conversion as single project > and get over with. How can I do a data conversion when the data in question is owned and managed by core Zope 2 objects, that can't agree on a common data format (string versus unicode)? Marius Gedminas -- http://pov.lt/ -- Zope 3 consulting and development
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