
Fil wrote:
I found another minor issue today: my name contains a "=E8", and when I subscribe it is transformed into è in the database.
There may be an issue with your MemberAdaptor. With OldStyleMemberships.py, accented characters are accepted and stored as themselves in the usernames dictionary.
Why not. But then it is presented to me everywhere on the web UI as è which displays the code and not the character. I can live with that but it's a bit ugly :-)
They are only displayed as ddd; in the web interface if the language of the page is English. If the list's preferred language is e.g., French, they will display correctly in the admin interface, and if the user's preferred language is e.g., French, they will display correctly on the user's options page.
Granted, the conversion of è to è is ugly, but it would be hard to change. The conversion of \xe8 to è is done by Utils.uncanonstr() which will convert any character that can't be encoded in the relevant character set (us-ascii for English) to the ddd; form. Then, in order to protect against XSS attacks, values to be displayed are passed through cgi.escape() which converts the & to &.
The real fix might be for cgi.escape() to be smarter :-)
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