[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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>> 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 ?
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>

Also look at Lemburg's talk:

http://downloads.egenix.com/python/LSM2005-Developing-Unicode-aware-applications-in-Python.pdf

..especially slide # 13

Andreas
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