[Zope] RE: Help with Japanese rendering in Zope...?

[Bjorn Stabell]

Erik wrote:
> Finally found the time to try out dump_obj, and it's showing 
> me that everything *should* be stored correctly in Unicode.  
> Furthermore, the properties page itself (sample attached) 
> does correctly identify the input as UTF-8.  However, the 
> results of my simple dtml method still show question marks, 
> even when I look at the source of the generated page 
> (attached, along with the results of dump_obj).  
> 
> Given that the dtml-method result page *source* shows 
> question marks in place of proper Japanese, it suggests to me 
> that something isn't returning properly.  Perhaps some 
> intermediary function is not Unicode-aware and fills in the 
> non-ascii chars with question marks?

The only thing I can think of now that could be wrong is that ZPublisher
doesn't encode to the right character encoding.  If

	RESPONSE.setHeader('content-type', 'text/html;
charset=WHATEVER')

isn't done somewhere, then ZPublisher probably wouldn't know which
character encoding to use.  Also (something I forgot), I believe you
have to output a Unicode character early in the page rendering process
in order to trigger this automatic Unicode-encoding functionality of the
ZPublisher.  Try putting this first in your DTML method:

	<dtml-var "RESPONSE.setHeader('content-type', 'text/html;
charset=WHATEVER')"
	><dtml-var "u''"
	><dtml-var standard_html_header>
	...

If it works, move it into your standard_html_header.

Regards,
-- 
Bjorn