Re: SilvaExternalSources and management_page_charset

On 06. Feb 2007, at 16:16 Uhr, eric casteleijn wrote:

> Reinhard Hess wrote:
>> Dear Silva Developers
>>
>>
>> I have a question in regard to SilvaExternalSources and
>> management_page_charset.
>>
>> In CSVSource.py, management_page_charset is set to utf-8.
>> However, in ExternalSource.py, management_page_charset is set to  
>> iso-8859-1.
>> Is there a hidden logic, why there is a setting to iso-8859-1  
>> instead of
>> utf-8 or is it just a bug?
>
> Neither, actually :) (Or at least I don't think it's a bug, nothing is
> breaking because of it right?)

lots of stuff "broke" when we migrated from silva-1.1.5 to silva-1.5.8.

for new code sources:
the main issues were with the python scripts. e.g.:

    return 'üöäü'

this works (correct display) only when data encoding for the code  
source itself is set to iso-8859-1.

for old code sources:
old scripts are now shown incorrectly because they were encoded utf-8  
but the browser is set to iso-8859-1. but in smi they are shown  
correctly when data encoding remains utf-8.

page templates always work properly regardless of the data encoding  
of the code sources.

outside code sources encoding in zmi is set to iso-8859-1 (at least  
in zope 2.8.8).

there is an inconsistency with the encodings in the zmi and we have  
currently a mix-up of different encodings within code sources.

regards,
marc