Comment 3 for bug 646019

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Stephan Richter (srichter) wrote : Re: [Bug 646019] Re: FileStorage error if user contains non-ascii characters

On Thursday, September 23, 2010, Jim Fulton wrote:
> Perhaps it would be nice if the user field was unicode. <shrug> The
> definition of this interface predates unicode in Python. This is
> unlikely to change.
>
> A more likely change is to drop these fields altogether and keep just
> the extension data, which allows any picklable data.

What about simply using UTF-8 in zope.app.publication to encode and decode the
principal id. This would require the smallest code change.

Regards,
Stephan
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