Jim Fulton wrote:


Oh, that. Waaaaa.  Christian Theune almost had this fixed last year
at EuroPython.

This is also related to a File object refactoring that someone *almost*
finished recently.

What kind of refactoring ? Is it already in the trunk ?


I don't know what your solution looks like at this point. But I'll note:

- File objects store Bytes data.  Not unicode.

I did not changed anything to the IFile interface. Text or not, the content is always stored on the Bytes field.

- For text content, File object's want to keep track of an
  encoding.

This is not what I understood of the description of issue 302 on Collector (see http://mail.zope.org/pipermail/zope3-dev/2004-October/012371.html ).

My solution just convert the text input to UTF-8 before for storage in the Bytes field. A UTF-8 specific widget (very similar to the future ASCIIAreaWidget) is used in the edit form. When the text file is displayed, the content is converted to unicode and afterwards to the preferred encoding of the user's browser. This works quite well on my computer...

I expect that, in the long term (3.2?), we'll need to totally redo
Files to make then sane and to take advantage of ZODB Blobs.

Resolving issue 302 is on the todo list for 3.1. However, one could take advantage of this future refactoring in order to merge I18NFile and File into a single package. After all, a non-i18n file is just a i18n file with a default language...

BTW, I18NFile is also broken because of encoding problems. I was not able to enter non-ASCII characters in the text area... That's pretty problematic for a I18N-aware product :-D

Stéphane

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