Martijn Faassen wrote:
Jim Fulton wrote:
Martijn Faassen wrote:
[snip]
I'll volunteer to help brainstorm on this, but right now my
brainstorm is only very dark and full of lightning.
You and I brainstormed this a few months ago. I think this was on the
list. I think that, for starters, we would arrange that all Zope 3
views used in Zope 2 would get unicode input. If you like, I can try
to find this discussion. :)
Ah, right, that is far less scary, indeed. Your post somehow gave me the
impression you wanted to change the way current Zope 2 does things, but
if you limit yourself to what happens with Zope 3 stuff in Zope 2, it's
less scary.
In fact Five already has hacks to make sure that unicode enters
Five-generated forms. Replacing these hacks with something solid would
be good.
Anyway, in some basics, Zope 2 does have an approach to unicode for
*output* that's fairly similar to Zope 3's: if you use unicode
strings your entire output (including page templates) will be unicode
(if you don't mix with non-unicode non-ascii strings..). Then the
response encoding setting is read and everything is transformed once
to unicode text. Silva uses this. It also struggles to make sure all
its input is transformed to unicode (among other ways using Formulator).
In Plone, the situation is quite different -- its
PlacelessTranslationService monkeypatches into the page template
engine and puts in ways so that you can mix UTF-8 and unicode strings
together. This then goes on to break assumptions of code that uses
the page template engine in a unicode-pure environment (which is what
happened to Silva).
Ick.
I'm not suggesting this is easy. We may have some messy deprecation
and backward compatibility code. But we *do* need to solve this problem
eventually, and the solution doesn't get any closer without taking steps.
Yes. I'm optimistic about being able to do this for Five-related stuff.
If this is eventually going to be people's main development system, then
we can basically say we've solved the important unicode issues.
What I'm worried about doing this for old code, but some steps will
probably become clear during the brainstorming session. Migration tools
that turn strings in the ZODB into unicode ones magically (with the
ability to spell out exceptions and encoding)? Tricky...
I'd start by adding some deprecation warnings at the places where
PlacelessTranslationService (or Localizer for that matter) do their
workarounds so that normally incompatible types are mixed together.
Florent
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