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

[Mark Nottingham]

Reference?


On 22/09/2009, at 12:07 PM, Graham Dumpleton wrote:

> 2009/9/22 Mark Nottingham <mnot at mnot.net>:
>> Most things is not the Web. How will you handle serving images  
>> through WSGI?
>> Compressed content?  PDFs?
>
> You are perhaps misunderstanding something. A WSGI application still
> should return bytes.
>
> The whole concept of any sort of fallback to allow unicode data to be
> returned for response content was purely so the canonical hello world
> application as per Python 2.X could still be used on Python 3.X.
>
> So, we aren't saying that the only thing WSGI applications can return
> is unicode strings for response content.
>
> Have you read my original blog post that triggered all this discussion
> this time around?
>
> Graham
>
>> On 22/09/2009, at 1:30 AM, René Dudfield wrote:
>>
>>> here is a summary:
>>>   Apart from python3 compatibility(which should be good enough
>>> reason), utf-8 is what's used in http a lot these days.  Most things
>>> layered on top of wsgi are using utf-8 (django etc), and lots of web
>>> clients are using utf-8 (firefox etc).
>>>
>>> Why not move to unicode?
>>
>>
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