Re: formencode and toscawidgetsforms interaction

On Jan 9, 2007, at 9:07 AM, David Smith wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I was experimenting with using ToscaWidgetsForms and tried
> using a UnicodeString field in a ListForm which proceeded to
> die with a Unicode decode error. I traced this to formencode's
> UnicodeString validator automatically encoding the unicode
> object into utf-8 which genshi then tried to use in a
> u''.join([value]) form, which causes the error.
>
> Thus, you cannot currently use non-ascii strings with
> ToscaWidgetsForms fields.
>
> I've attached a patch to toscawidgetform's test_forms.py to
> demonstrate.
>
> I believe the solution is that UnicodeString's from_python
> should not encode the string. Would that cause a problem for
> anyone?

I've just comitted the tests you provided to TW (thanks!) and they  
all pass. I'm using FE 0.6 so I guess it's fixed in FE already, what  
version of FE are you using? Just in case I've bumpled TW's  
requirement to FE 0.6.

Alberto

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