-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 First, cool down for a moment.
Second, I discussed all those issues with my special friend in some Launchpad ticket years ago (+ a huge amount of private discussions). I can not recall all details but at the time of the integration of the Zope 3 ZPT engine the unicode resolver approach was the best thinkable solution for dealing all possible edgecase where encoding issues may pop *for the sake of backwards compatibility* and with all possible combinations where encodings have to be considered (including stuff like the management_page_charset property). The implementation is now working for years - so it can't be that bad. If you have a better implementation you should be able to override the utility or to fix the code directly. I won't comment after years on the details below (check Launchpad for the related ticket). Andreas Chris Withers wrote: > Hi All, > > It's been a a while since I had a good rant on a Zope list, but this > really takes the biscuit. > > Andreas, what on *earth* were you thinking with PreferredCharsetResolver?! > > I like the idea of IUnicodeEncodingConflictResolver, but > PreferredCharsetResolver is in the realms of totally batshit crazy. > > Why? well, because what *on earth* have the character sets accepted by > the user agent got to do with how strings are encoded in *my database*?! > > Nevermind the logic holes of the following: > > - reverting to management_page_charset *only* if there's no REQUEST > (there's always a REQUEST, this is Zope 2, the world collapses if there > isn't!) > > - returning the original text if the bizarre dance fails, violating the > contract of IUnicodeEncodingConflictResolver to *return unicode* > > How about the *insane performance overhead* of doing two utility lookups > *and* iterating over a load of encodings trying to find one that works > for *every single string substituition* done by a ZPT?! > > Why has no-one noticed this? Well, my guess is because when browsers are > explicitly supplying headers, as quite a few do (IE and Safari excepted, > who are legitimately going "we can handle anything you can throw at > us"), this moronic piece of code happily loops through them all, and no > doubt gets a hit on either utf-8 or latin-1, or, if you're really lucky, > ascii. > > To boot, when things go wrong, nobody suspects this miserable little > turd because it's hides itself nicely by just returning the original > text, leaving the bemused reader to wonder why some UA's fail and some > succeed, pointing the finger in totally the wrong direction (hence > Charlie's hacked up getPreferredCharsets and poor Vlad's desperate > attempts). > > Thankfully, I guess I can register an override that doesn't bark at the > moon and froth at the mouth... Here, have an invoice for the hours of my > life you've needlessly wasted... > > Faaaaaaaaaaaaarq, > > Chris ;-) > - -- ZOPYX Limited | zopyx group Charlottenstr. 37/1 | The full-service network for Zope & Plone D-72070 Tübingen | Produce & Publish www.zopyx.com | www.produce-and-publish.com - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ E-Publishing, Python, Zope & Plone development, Consulting -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQGUBAEBAgAGBQJMmRMqAAoJEADcfz7u4AZjThgLvjIWRhiVWoV/0IG7qadEliG0 Dk1+v+hu3ocu0DURn9XK5nGrHkkR+cFIjYdyjArDfXTqoNXWPii90QbtypK7Lce8 PD2rPp+fnwyMSne9iz9s/LtYYrDO/gbxWx9robjyjGmvICthKZD/qZk3cM47SSzq rhZLRV+r6GwVemn8sQEQ/y3gXKMgP7txz/Co1reWdWgrRH2HX4qpzvKHVLykXIrT lx4D9X0UfxGO+64p7MCEOgg41W3EzNM3qIEGp4PUTTwjcp/Use+AP5kS+Q6vQEWV n4c3RdaIX35EMNjVaunh0SMj+75rizMTarkGJ9e5lxekQLxqrveTiKqgGWtManD4 fjCSXpaobvy1Ym02CSLSLmSA4Y8ETTvdM87covKBvXHfaDyn5zxZaCmJ66L7Y+1i OwnbtFIke4tLFGhsEQDcbSBQDMD6TNuA1h/SQJ5AXAT3kSBPPvhWS/C8tWvoEdft dhzLEvXmpqMyA/4EgrMh6zP5fuGGkuM= =WUsF -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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