Re: [Rest2web-develop] Encoding & Uservalues

[Fuzzyman <fuz...@vo...>]

Andrew Ittner wrote:
> I vote for 4) and then 1) as a fall-back, since you allow the developer to
> specify exactly what encoding they want.  If they do not take advantage of
> that, just use the lowest-common denominator.
>
>   
Right - in which case I will use 2) as a fallback and explicitly decode 
to unicode assuming ascii. Everything else is stored as unicode, and 
this will raise an error if the programmer uses non-ascii values without 
specifying an encoding.

Hopefully I'll commit this tonight.

Thanks for your input.

Fuzzyman
http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/index.shtml

> Andrew
>
>   
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: res...@li...
>> [mailto:res...@li...]On Behalf Of
>> Fuzzyman
>> Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2006 6:12 AM
>> To: Rest2web Dev List
>> Subject: [Rest2web-develop] Encoding & Uservalues
>>
>>
>> Hello all,
>>
>>     
> [snip]
>   
>> So how should rest2web handle uservalues passed in the config file and
>> at the command line ?
>>
>> First of all the config file. There are three options :
>>
>> 1) Ignore encodings and assume that the config file values are ascii or
>> in the appropriate encoding
>> 2) Decode to unicode immediately and restrict values to ascii only
>> 3) Guess the encoding of the config file, using the same technique as is
>> used for guessing the encoding of pages (annoying to implement but well
>> possible)
>> 4) Allow a magic value '__encoding__' to specify the encoding in use
>>
>> My personal preference is 4). I then need to choose between 1), 2) and
>> 3) as a fallback if that value is missing.
>>
>> I have a similar problem with values passed at the command line -
>> however in this case I can check ``sys.stdin.encoding``. This works (on
>> windows) even if stdin has already been closed. I will probably have to
>> force ascii only if that information isn't available.
>>
>> All the best,
>>
>> Fuzzyman
>> http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/index.shtml
>>     
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