On Wed, 2007-08-29 at 14:58 +0100, Robin Becker wrote: > Hi, we're having some troubles with latest django that are caused by the > switch > to unicode string output. In particular since we were already carefully > handling > the conversion and encoding of the database values we are now getting errors > because the data is in unicode. Is it possible to disable the unicode > conversion?
No, it's not possible. The assumptions that strings will already be Unicode is fairly tightly inter-twined throughout the code. To do otherwise would, for example, really impact performance because we would *never* be able to assume that things were in the right encoding and have to call smart_unicode() everywhere -- the function call overhead would be noticeable (I say this from having tested it). I'd like to hear details of what the actual problems are, so that we can fix things rather than trying to hide them. I'm not going to be able to work on anything like this for a little while (partly because of a commitment to get some other code finished urgently), but we should fix any difficulties. I'm not going to be too surprised to hear that it's something like trying to use binary-like data in text fields -- getting a proper binary field and, most importantly, getting transparent transmission to and from the database in play is a pretty big priority once I have time. It's not completely trivial, but, again, a clear description of the problems you are having might help guide the design. That will, in effect, provide a way to have deliberately unencoded data in both a designated binary field and also available for any custom field types and should solve some problems I suspect exist. Regards, Malcolm -- Why can't you be a non-conformist like everyone else? http://www.pointy-stick.com/blog/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
