[Web-SIG] Request for Comments on upcoming WSGI Changes

[P.J. Eby]

At 03:26 PM 9/21/2009 -0700, Robert Brewer wrote:
>It looks simpler until you have a site that is not primarily utf-8. In
>that case, you multiply your (1 line * number of middlewares in the WSGI
>stack * each request). With wsgi.uri_encoding you get either (1 line * 1
>middleware designed to transcode * each request), or even 0 if your
>whole site uses just one charset.

Unless I'm misunderstanding something, you end up adding an extra 
"if" statement *everywhere*, to check whether wsgi.uri_encoding is 
what you want it to be or not.

(Btw, this whole notion of talking about WSGI "sites" also doesn't 
make sense, since WSGI doesn't have "sites", it has 
recursively-composable application objects.  Sure, if you're using a 
monolithic framework, you can think of applications as unified 
entities, but that's not true of WSGI as a whole.)