[Zope-Coders] unicode question

[Andreas Jung]

The ZCatalog is currently unable to handle Unicode strings
because the default ZopeSplitter is unable to handle anything
other than string objects. There is currently a 'ajung-unicode' 
branch to address this problem. A prototype of a Splitter
working with unicode strings is also available in this branch but
not very much tested yet. Also the interaction with the ZCatalog
is not tested yet. So I will address these problems.

Andreas
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Alexander" <steve@cat-box.net>
To: <zope-coders@zope.org>
Sent: Friday, October 05, 2001 09:51
Subject: [Zope-Coders] unicode question


> How much should we be supporting unicode in Zope at present?
> 
> In some code I'm writing for the ZCatalog API, I want to see whether an 
> argument is a string or a sequence.
> 
> My first thought was to use:
> 
>    if isinstance(names, types.StringType):
>        names=(names,)
> 
> However, this won't work if "names" happens to be a unicode string.
> 
> So, should I add two if clauses?
> 
>    if isinstance(names, types.StringType):
>        names=(names,)
>    if isinstance(names, types.UnicodeType):
>        names=(names,)
> 
> --
> Steve Alexander
> 
> 
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