Erik wrote:

Okay, Japanese properties are rendering well, but ...

Now I have this odd "None" appearing as the first line of every page, as shown in the "kiru2" attachment. The results of dump_obj run on standard_html_header are also attached, and you'll notice that _v_cooked is "None". I've messed with the order of the elements in the header, thinking maybe the dtml calls wanted to be in the header, before it, or maybe in the body, but all to no avail -- the "None" won't go away.

Incidentally, the <dtml-var "u''"> bit appears to be unnecessary, as removing it doesn't have any effect on my object property views (thankfully). So the culprit appears to be the first line, <dtml-var "RESPONSE.setHeader('content-type', 'text/html; charset=UTF-8')">. Getting rid of this gets rid of the "None", but turns my properties back into gibberish.

Any ideas? I have no clue about what _v_cooked is...

Sorry, my mistake. You have to use dtml-call not dtml-var. The setHeader() function doesn't really return anything (=None), and dtml-var (unlike dtml-call) will include whatever is returned in the output. I'd still keep <dtml-var "u''"> in there. It may work fine now, but I think you may have trouble with some documents where Japanese or Unicode text shows up further into the document; at that point ZPublisher may already have started writing something out and by that time it's too late to switch the encoding. Bye, -- Bjorn