Hi, 2008/12/18 Paul Boddie <[email protected]>: > On Thursday 18 December 2008 21:35:59 Zeth wrote: >> 2008/12/18 John Pinner <[email protected]>: >> >> After clicking the button, I get an error 500: Page can not be displayed >> > >> > The problem is that us Brits don't understand Unicode. >> >> Unicode, horrible stuff, it worked with the one Finnish text I tried, >> but that was clearly not exotic enough. It didn't lose the talk >> though, it is there in the database. > > I tried a few times with ISO-8859-15 stuff in the biographical details and > contact address. > >> Roll on Python 3 when us English speakers can forget about Unicode >> again without hurting anyone ;) > > That's what you think! ;-)
I'll second that. While Py3k works consistently internally in Unicode, it still has to interface with the outside world, where input may be ASCII, Latin1, utf-8 and God knows what else. I have customers with data sets produced over 20 year sor more, using Unix, Linux, DOS and Windows from several different countries. Output is easier to handle, because at least you usually know what is expected (and it won't be Python Unicode as a rule). >> > In Zeth's absence I've (hopefully) fixed it. >> >> Well done you. I have committed your changes to the bzr repo to be >> preserved for prosperity. > > I'll resubmit my fake submission tomorrow just to check that I'm not doing > anything else that can be described as more exotic than Finnish. > > Paul > > P.S. I'm still quite amused by the Py3K Unicode enthusiasm, especially when > it's from the Django people, some of whom were pretty late to the Unicode > table as I recall. I'll admit that I made a similar "500 error" Unicode > slip-up recently, though: I forgot to tell PostgreSQL to be a full Unicode > citizen... Apparently it's causing a lot of confusion in the US, but they still haven't update their paper sizes to something sensible. John -- _______________________________________________ Europython-improve mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/europython-improve
