[Zope] Problem with links containing non-ascii characters in StructuredText

Fri Sep 30 01:53:03 EDT 2005

You have to configure your locale support in etc/zope.conf properly.

-aj

--On 30. September 2005 00:26:14 +0200 Maurits van Rees 
<maurits at vanrees.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have a problem getting links to function in StructuredText when they
> have non-ascii characters in the title.
>
> - This will render as a link: "Zope website":http://zope.org/
>
> - This will render literally: "Zöpe website":http://zope.org/
>
> [Notice the diaeresis in the second case.]
>
> This can of course be solved by using html entities like '&ouml;'.
> But I have just started using utf-8 so I don't have to bother myself
> with writing html entities.  There is probably a Python method that
> can translate 'ö' into '&ouml;', but I would like the resulting html
> code to be humanly readable utf-8 as well.  I wouldn't mind iso-8859-1
> as that's what it basically is in my case (I'm Dutch) but utf-8 seems
> the way to go.
>
> Anyway, here is a script that illustrates the problem.  It has some
> extra non-ascii characters thrown in just to show that these
> characters don't give any problems outside of the links.
>
> ------------------
> import Products.PythonScripts.standard
>
> print """
> <html><head>
> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8" />
> </head><body>
> """
>
> text="""
> Let's link to a "Zope website":http://zope.org/.
>
> Nó. Let's lïnk to à "Zöpe website":http://zope.org/.
> """
>
> ppss=Products.PythonScripts.standard.structured_text
> print ppss(unicode(text, 'iso-8859-1').encode('utf-8'))
># The following line has the same effect:
># print unicode(ppss(text), 'iso-8859-1').encode('utf-8')
>
> print "</body>"
>
> return printed
> ------------------
>
> Don't worry, this is not how I usually make my pages. ;-)
>
> This results in the following html source code:
>
> ------------------
> <html><head>
> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8" />
> </head><body>
>
> <p>Let's link to a <a href="http://zope.org/">Zope website</a>.</p>
> <p>Nó. Let's lïnk to à "Zöpe website":http://zope.org/.</p>
>
> </body>
> ------------------
>
> That last failed link is obviously not as it should be.  Does anyone
> know a solution?  I failed to find one with Google.
>
> I wondered if it had to do with the diaeresis specifically, but the
> same thing goes wrong with e.g. 'Zópe'.
>
> BTW, I use the Debian Sarge version of Zope 2.7.
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> Maurits van Rees | http://maurits.vanrees.org/ [Dutch/Nederlands]
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