[Zope] Diacriticals in ZMI

Florent Guillaume fg@nuxeo.com
Wed, 18 Sep 2002 18:44:33 +0000 (UTC)


It works for me, I have ISO-8859-1 in the ZMI.
Maybe check you Navigator/Languages/Default Character Coding preference.

Florent

Charlie Reiman <creiman@kefta.com> wrote:
> If I fire up a fresh mozilla it goes to a blank page (my standard startup
> page). Mozilla shows the character encoding is indeed Western ISO 8859-1.
> However, when I view the ZMI, the encoding shifts to Unicode UTF-8.
> Experiments with other pages seem to indicate Mozilla is detecting the
> encoding correctly but it's difficult to be certain.
> 
> If I had to guess, I'd say Zope is claiming to be UTF-8 but not handling
> user supplied data (properties) correctly. They just get spat out as-is,
> which in this case is ISO 8859. This makes sense since I don't think Zope
> has any way of knowing if the user properties are UTF or ISO 8859 or what.
> 
> It turns out I can use &blah; style encoding in titles and that seems to be
> okay with Moz and IE6. The only problem is they display in the ZMI as
> &blah;. This is correct but annoying.
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