[Product-Developers] Re: Re: Re: UnicodeDecodeError

[Andreas Jung]

--On 25. März 2008 15:06:59 +0100 Gilles Lenfant 
<gilles.lenfant at ingeniweb.com> wrote:

> Le 25 mars 08 à 14:51, Andreas Jung a écrit :
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> [...]
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>> How clearer can I be: don't touch the encoding - never ever. And it
>> is perfectly ok for Plone not to touch the default encoding. Implicit
>> charset conversions are evil...as I wrote several times.
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> Hi,
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> Does this mean that such code...
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>      dummy = str(someunicode)
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> ... should be forbidden ?
>

YES! You should *ever* use explicit charset conversion using

dummy = someunicodeste.encode(your_encoding)

If the Pycon 2008 videos should be online at some time in the future, 
consider watching the Unicode talk.

-aj

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