Again encoding problems

[Fabio Tranchitella]

* 2008-10-29 16:36, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Well, porting to Zope 3 is no option for the moment.  But the fact that
> Zope 2.x shows this trouble is kind of strange - isn't any Python string
> supposed to be UTF-8?  So what is the source of the problem in Zope?

No, a python string is in whatever encoding you want it to be:

    >>> a = 'ò'
    >>> b = a.decode('utf-8').encode('iso-8859-15')
    >>> a != b
    True

Zope 3 only works with unicode strings, and it is way more easier to handle
encoding only in the "output" working with unicode internally.

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