[Zope] strange unicode behaviour

24 Jul 2003 09:37:09 +0300

Giuseppe Bonelli kirjutas N, 24.07.2003 kell 02:17:
> I have spent the last 30 minutes going crazy with this:
> 
> in dtml:
> <html>
> <head>
> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8">
> </head>
> <dtml-call "getText()")>
> </html>
> 
> in python:
> def getText():
>     s=u'a string with some accented chars'
>     s=s.encode('utf-8')
>     return s
> 
> the above works fine, but
> return s.lower()
> 
> does not !!! (the accented chars are badly rendered in the browser).

you do s.lower() on a string that is in fact utf-8 and python does not
know - for python the result of s.encode(x) is "just a string"

try doing

def getText():
    s=u'a string with some accented chars'
    s=s.lower()
    s=s.encode('utf-8')
    return s

i.e. lower() the unicode version of s

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Hannu