XML: minidom toxml() does not work for non English files! :-(

[Michael Hudson]

martin at v.loewis.de (Martin v. Loewis) writes:

> Trent Mick <trentm at ActiveState.com> writes:
> 
> >        Jaroslaw mentions that the problem goes away if he replaces
> >        ActivePython 2.2.1's StringIO.py with the one from the PythonLabs
> >        distro. That would be fine (a bug in ActivePython) except that
> >        ActivePython has the more *recent* StringIO.py. So is Jaroslaw
> >        misusing StringIO.py or is this StringIO.py checkin incorrect or
> >        am I confused:
> 
> The most recent StringIO (1.22) has this:
> 
> class StringIO:
>     def __init__(self, buf = ''):
>         # Force self.buf to be a string or unicode
>         if type(buf) is not types.UnicodeType:
>             buf = str(buf)
> 
> IMO, this is "more correct" than just calling str every time.

Except in --disable-unicode builds...

Cheers,
M.

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