How to use xmlrpc properly with Korean (non-ascii characters)

[Seunghyun Kim]

Hi. 

Recently I tried xmlrpc to support Korean. In newsgroup, there are
many complaint to xmlrpc from non-english, because it formally
supports just ASCII. Here is solution for Korean Language support. I
guess it would be properly adopted to other languages.

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First of all, you have to get xmlrpclib 0.9.9 from pythonware, and
install it to your $PYTHON_PATH$/lib. surely overwrite previous files.
Then open xmlrpclib.py with text editor and modify it.

1. insert "import codecs"

from
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import re, string, time, operator
import urllib, xmllib
from types import *
from cgi import escape
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to
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import re, string, time, operator
import urllib, xmllib
import codecs            # codecs
from types import *
from cgi import escape
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2. modify _decode() method

from
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def _decode(data, encoding, is8bit=re.compile("[\x80-\xff]").search):
    # decode non-ascii string (if possible)
    if unicode and is8bit(data):
        data = unicode(data, encoding)
    return data
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to
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def _decode(data, encoding, is8bit=re.compile("[\x80-\xff]").search):
    # decode non-ascii string (if possible)
    if unicode and is8bit(data):
        UTF8_encode = codecs.lookup('UTF-8')[0]    # set UTF8 codec
        data = UTF8_encode(unicode(data, 'mbcs'))[0] 
    return data
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When string include non-ascii Korean characters, it is encoded with
'EUC-KR' automatically from web server. So, Client should converted it
to 'UTF-8' type which Python can cope with skillfully. I think this
approach could be adopted to other languages.

Any comment will be appreciated.

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Sola Pro Christo