Dieter, Andreas and Daryl

 

Here comes a detailed description of a new Zope-installation I just made on a new Debian (testing) machine. Here are the steps to reproduce my problem. (I'm still not sure it is a problem other than me not understanding how this should work).

 

Downloading Zope
wget http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.10.2/Zope-2.10.2.tgz
tar -xzvf Zope-2.10.2.tgz

cd Zope-2.10.2-final

 ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/zope

make

sudo make install

sudo ./usr/local/zope/bin/mkzopeinstance.py

/usr/local$ sudo chown -R zope.zope zope
/usr/local$ sudo chown -R zope.zope zopeinst

sudo jed /usr/local/zopeinst/etc/zope.conf
<-- set effective-user zope

leira:/usr/local/zopeinst/bin# sudo ./runzope

Logging in to ZMI directly to port 8080 I add a new Page Template.

If the page template contains only

 

    hei på deg

 

it saves OK and runs OK.

 

If it contains either of the tal-lines below I get the following error message:

 

   <div tal:content="python:unicode('hei på deg','utf8')" />

 

Compilation failed
exceptions.UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe5' in position 33: ordinal not in range(128)

 

   <div tal:content="python:u'hei på deg'" />

 

Compilation failed
exceptions.UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe5' in position 26: ordinal not in range(128)

 

   <div tal:content="python:'hei på deg'" />

 

Compilation failed
exceptions.UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe5' in position 25: ordinal not in range(128)

 

In this test I have used IE6 (and it is not passing HTTP_ACCEPT_CHARSET in the request).

 

By the way: The character 'å' has value 0xe5 in iso-8859-1.

 

Should the above tal-statements have worked? I have done no other configuration on the zope-instances than stated here but are consistant with my problems on another installation at work.

Regards Jost