[Zope] Zope 2.6.1 and UTF-8

[Toby Dickenson]

On Wednesday 10 September 2003 16:56, Mark Barratt wrote:

> >> Hmmm, that's interesting. I'd been planning on keeping everything as
> >> UTF-8 encoded strings rather than actual unicode. What leads you to
> >> suggest storing everything as unicode?

> UTF-8 is one way of encoding Unicode character-sets. They are not
> different things. 

I think Chris was referring to python's unicode type, rather than Unicode in 
general.

He was planning to store his Unicode values utf8 encoded in plain 8-bit string 
objects, rather than as unicode objects

> When you use UTF-8 you are using Unicode.

>>> type(u'hello')
<type 'unicode'>
>>> type(u'hello'.encode('utf8'))
<type 'str'>

But Im sure you knew that.

-- 
Toby Dickenson