Re: [Zope] Non-ASCII-form-input -> HTML-entities?
Markus Kemmerling writes:
I would like to have users being able to enter german vowels ä, ö, ü and other non-ASCII-characters for which HTML-entities exist (ISO 8859-1) into a form-input-field and have them rendered as HTML-entities by the corresponding var-tag in the form-handler.
The 'html_quote'-attribute only seems to convert &, <, and > (and quotes?). Of course I could write my own python-method with a lot of replaces. But that would probably mean to reinvent a wheel that already exists (this seems to be a rather common task to me). Or is there a way to do it in DTML?
Any help appreciated. I would instead include a "charset" declaration and no longer worry about HTML entities for latin 1 characters.
<dtml-call "RESPONSE.setHeader('Content-Type','text/html; charset=iso-8859-1')"> Dieter
On 3 Jan 2001, at 22:53, Dieter Maurer wrote:
I would instead include a "charset" declaration and no longer worry about HTML entities for latin 1 characters.
<dtml-call "RESPONSE.setHeader('Content-Type','text/html; charset=iso-8859-1')">
This is rendundant. ISO-8859-1 is the default encoding for http, anyway, and has ever been. -- Wolfgang Strobl
Thanks for your answers! I am looking forward for Unicode-Zope, but for now the solution proposed by D. Maurer is sufficient for me. (I suppose it is equally good to insert a Content-Type meta-tag in the standard_html_header?) This one line doesn't hurt, although W. Strobl seems to be right, especially taking into account the following 2 statements in RFC 2616: 'Some HTTP/1.0 software has interpreted a Content-Type header without charset parameter incorrectly to mean "recipient should guess."' but also: 'Unfortunately, some older HTTP/1.0 clients did not deal properly with an explicit charset parameter.' I encountered these problems especially on the Mac (up to Netscape 3, as far as I can remember). But as it seems, the time to care about this misbehaviour is over now. Markus Kemmerling
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