Florent Guillaume wrote at 2005-8-9 17:18 +0200: >We're seeing problems in one application here due to the catalog and >interactions with Unicode. Here's what happens: > >- an object is indexed with a Unicode title, so in the catalog the >metadata tuple has for instance (u'cafe',) >- later that title is changed to latin-1, so the new metadata tuple >would be ('caf\xe9',) > >The problem is that Catalog.py has in updateMetadata() the code: > > if data.get(index, 0) != newDataRecord: > data[index] = newDataRecord > try: > changed = data.get(index, 0) != newDataRecord > except UnicodeDecodeError: > changed = True > if changed: > data[index] = newDataRecord > >Objections ?
I fear, you will get similar problems in the indexes. You should avoid mixed unicode/non-unicode in fields or indexes (or the the "default encoding" appropriately). -- Dieter _______________________________________________ Zope-Dev maillist - Zope-Dev@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope )