E. Frerich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > line 545 of zope\app\container\contained.py contains a testcase ">>>
> > > setitem(container, container.__setitem__, 'hello ' + chr(200),
> > > item)" which should give back a traceback: " Traceback (most
> > > recent call last):
> > > ...
> > > TypeError: name not unicode or ascii string
> > > "
> > > but the name parameter is correct:
> > > "
> > > >>> max=unicode('hello ' + chr(200))
> >
> > That shouldn't work. You're running with a non-default system default
>
> Oh - what is a "non-default system default"? The "naked" Python has
> 'ascii' as default but you can customize the default for a Python site.
Yes but this is highly unadvised. It's more a band-aid for lazy apps
than anything else.
> So my Python site has the default encoding 'cp1252'. All applications
> - not only Zope 3 - use this encoding.
Which means that all your applications are written with an implicit
assumption about the default system encoding. And they will break on
platforms with a different choice.
> IMO Zope 3 should accept other default encodings.
Zope has to be conservative so that it knows it can run everywhere.
> And then this test is not helpful.
It ensures that Zope works with minimal "standard" python settings.
Florent
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