[katello-devel] Fwd: [Pulp-list] i18n input

[Bryan Kearney]

Comments?

-- bk



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Subject: [Pulp-list] i18n input
Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2012 14:40:18 -0600
From: Jason Connor <jconnor at redhat.com>
To: pulp-list at redhat.com <pulp-list at redhat.com>

Hi All,

Lately we've been struggling with a rash of bugs related to i18n input 
in Pulp. Python 2's unicode support is only so-so and whenever we get 
non-ascii or non-utf-8 encoded strings, we tend to run into trouble (the 
most common is problematic encoding seems to be latin-1). Given that 
Python's str type is really just a byte array with some built in smarts, 
it isn't really possible to guess what the encoding might actually be.

To address this issue, I propose that we make string encoding as utf-8 a 
hard requirement on the server. To enforce this, we'll try to decode all 
strings from utf-8 and any failures will get a 400 server response with 
some sort of standardized message: utf-8 encoded strings only (dummy), 
or something similar.

Any thoughts?

Jason L Connor
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