On Friday February 13, 2009 14:42:48 Christoph Zwerschke wrote:
> Raphael Slinckx schrieb:
> > There seems to be a problem, but i don't know where to ask so i give
> > it a shot here.
> > ...
> > In any case it breaks authentication for any username using non-ascii
> > user_names, and the quickstart template in TG2 uses Unicode for
> > user_name so it is bound to happen sometime. Any thoughts on how to
> > fix this ?
>
> I can reproduce the problem and your analysis seems to be correct.
>
> I think this should be fixed in paste.request. The parse_formvars should
> return unicode instead of encoded strings. I saw that it simply ignores
> the charset (anything specified after a semicolon) in the content_type.
> Instead, it should analyze the content_type for an explicitly defined
> charset (assuming utf-8 if nothing is specified), and then it should
> decode the content using that charset.
>
> Even in Python 2, we should learn to follow the Python 3 paradigm of
> keeping everything that can potentially be non-ascii in unicode and
> convert things immediately at the i/o boundaries. In this case, this is
> IMHO the duty of the parse_formvars function.

+1, definitely.
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