than we have a problem. Can you provide an example of DAL code that returned unicode? Is this on GAE?
On Nov 8, 9:41 pm, Clayton <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Massimo, > > Thanks for the quick reply. I'd be ok with utf8 strings, it's just > that the DAL returned a unicode string, not utf8. So the code was > extra complicated by having to convert all data from the DAL to utf8 > strings in order not to crash the xml web service. > > I've really enjoyed working with web2py. Thanks for making it happen! > > Cheers, > > Clayton > > On Sep 30, 1:29 pm, mdipierro <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I would not call this a bug because as a rule web2py supports only > > utf8 strings. Yet sometime unicode works just fine. > > I'd call this a suggestion for improvement and I will take a look into > > it. I am sure It can be done. > > > Massimo > > > On Sep 30, 11:54 am, Clayton <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > The following crashes with ascii encoding error: > > > > @service.xml > > > def test(): > > > return dict(test=u'K\u00E5') > > > > It fails with "UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode > > > character u'\xe5' in position 1: ordinal not in range(128)" when the > > > service is called. > > > > The following succeeds: > > > > @service.xml > > > def test(): > > > return dict(test=u'K\u00E5'.encode('utf-8')) > > > > Now the DAL returns unicode strings just fine, but when I try to > > > return them from a web service, it crashes due to this bug. > > > > The bug seems to be at line 21 of serializers.py as far as I can tell, > > > as it doesn't deal with unicode type. > > > > Thanks! > > > > Clayton > >
