[Zope] Character set problems

[Dragos Chirila]

Hi

Here are some things you can do to handle your problem. For me, this 
approach worked just fine.

1. Your HTML pages must have set the encoding to utf-8. Put this in the 
HEAD tag of your html pages:

	<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />

2. For the Root folder add a property named 'management_page_charset' of 
type 'string' with the value 'utf-8'. In this way the ZMI pages will be 
displayed with utf-8 encoding.

3. Modify your HTML code like this:

	<input name="test:utf8:ustring" />

	If 'test' is also a property of some object, make sure it has 'ustring' 
type.


After that the value will be displayed correctly in all pages.

Note: If your Zope runs over an Apache you must check also the Apache 
settings (to serve pages utf-8 encoded)

Hope this will help.

Regards,
Dragos


Niklas Saers wrote:
> Hey guys,
> I've installed Zope on a FreeBSD server. My problem domain is very 
> small: display a list of when people are unavailable, and let people 
> update the list. This is all in Danish, and here are come my problems. 
> Danish has three extra letters not in the ASCII alfabet, three 
> upper-case and three lower-case. When getting the data from a <input 
> name="test" /> where I've written "æ ø å Æ Ø Å", I get: æ ø Ã¥ Æ Ø Ã…
> 
> What is the standard way of ensuring that I get the correct data?
> 
> I tried writing a little converter, but the string
> 
> tekst = tekst.replace("\xc3\xa6", "ae");
> 
> gives me the error *UnicodeDecodeError: **'ascii' codec can't decode 
> byte 0xc3 in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)*
> 
> Do you have any suggestion on how to overcome these problems?
> 
> Cheers
> 
>    Nik
> 
> 
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