[mod_python] encoding

Joshua Ginsberg wrote:
> Grr. Sorry -- you hit on a pet peeve of mine.
>
> UTF-8 IS NOT UNICODE!!!!!!!!!! GAH!!!!!!!!!
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>   

Yep I know that :-) I understand that an Unicode is just a 21 bits 
string ... (an unique number between 1 and 2097152) ...

> UTF-8 is a character encoding. UTF-16 is a character encoding. Latin1 is
> a character encoding. Big5 is a character encoding.
>
> Unicode is ***NOT*** a character encoding. Think of it as the Rosetta
> stone for character encodings.
>
> So when you .decode('utf8') a string encoded in UTF-8 you are taking a
>   

That was my question, how can be sure that a string is always encoded in 
UTF-8 when the user submit the form ?

> oython string in the UTF-8 encoding and replacing the characters with
> the values of their corresponding Unicode codepages -- this changes it
> to the Python type "unicode". Then you can .encode(some_other_charenc)
> and it will render those codepages in that particular character
> encoding.
>
> -jag
>
> On Mon, 2006-08-28 at 17:12 +0200, Julien Cigar wrote:
>   
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have a little question about encodings.
>> On the project I'm currently working on, everything is in unicode :
>> - locales on the server (LANG=en_US.UTF-8)
>> - the PostgreSQL database
>> - ...
>>
>> I'm using the Psycopg2 module to interact with PostgreSQL, and SimpleTAL 
>> for the template engine.
>> Those two libraries requires type unicode instead of type str, otherwise 
>> I get errors (ContextContentException: Found non-unicode string in 
>> Context! for SimpleTal, and a "Can't adapt ...." error with psycopg2). 
>> It's still a little obscure for me why it doesn't work with type str ...
>>
>> The solution I found (which works) was to .decode('utf-8') or 
>> unicode(mystr, 'utf-8') the POSTed data, but I wondered if it's not 
>> dangerous or incorrect to do like that ? To my knowledge, Apache does 
>> not make conversion of encoding, so it should be done at the mod_python 
>> level, right ?
>>
>> Is there a cleaner solution, which works in all cases ?
>>
>> In advance thanks, and sorry for my English
>>
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