[Zope-dev] IUnicodeEncodingConflictResolver moronosity

[Chris Withers]

On 21/09/2010 23:59, Marius Gedminas wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 07:39:46PM +0100, Chris Withers wrote:
>> So, would anyone object if I change the default, on both trunk and the
>> 2.12 branch to some variant of:
>>
>> class BasicEncodingConflictResolver(object):
>>        implements(IUnicodeEncodingConflictResolver)
>>
>>        def resolve(self, context, text, expression):
>>            logging.warn('You should register an '
>>                         'IUnicodeEncodingConflictResolver that matches '
>>                         'your content')
>>            return text.decode('ascii','replace')
>>
>> ...and delete that devil spawn turd that is PreferredCharsetResolver?
>
> If this means Zope2-the-application becomes unusable out of the box if
> you've non-ASCII data in your database, then I'm -1.

I'd call having the odd '?' shown in pages and a warning in your logs 
telling you about the problem in clear terms versus sporadic total 
failures by way of unicode exceptions a lot more usable, rather than the 
current situation, which is conceptually insane *and* unusable ;-)

Chris

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