[Zope] Character set problems

[Niklas Saers]

Dear Dragos and everyone,
I have the problem narrowed down to the Apache/Zope connection. I've more or 
less decided I want to stick with ISO-8859-1 because moving everything to 
UTF-8 didn't really help me out. All in ISO-8859-1 works fine with Zope 
stand-alone, but unfortunately Apache needs to bridge it. As of right now, 
running it through the Apache bridge gives me the following:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 19:38:27 GMT
Server: Zope/(Zope 2.7.4-0, python 2.3.5, freebsd5) ZServer/1.1
Content-Type: text/html;charset=utf-8
Transfer-Encoding: chunked

whereas doing it through Zope gives me the following header:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: Zope/(Zope 2.7.4-0, python 2.3.5, freebsd5) ZServer/1.1
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 19:32:33 GMT
Content-Length: 3941
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1

I'm a little bit confused as to why Apache changes the character-set and 
encoding. My Apache setup for the virual host is this:

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin me at mysite.dk

ProxyPass / http://localhost:8080/
ProxyPassReverse / http://localhost:8080/

DocumentRoot /home/mysite
ServerName www.mysite.dk <http://www.mysite.dk>
ServerAlias mysite.dk <http://mysite.dk>
ErrorLog /var/log/www.mysite.dk-error_log
CustomLog /var/log/www.mysite.dk-access_log common

## proxy_html_module conf
ProxyHTMLURLMap http://localhost:8080 http://www.mysite.dk
SetOutputFilter proxy-html

RequestHeader unset Accept-Enconding
AddDefaultCharset ISO-8859-1
CharsetDefault ISO-8859-1

</VirtualHost>

What am I missing that makes the encoding go UTF-8? Not that it matters, but 
the HTML also contains

<META HTTPD_EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html;charset=iso-8859-1" />

Thanks for all your help so far

Cheers

Nik

On 9/9/05, Dragos Chirila <d.chirila at finsiel.ro> wrote:
> 
> 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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