[Zope] problem with input elements and unicode/utf-8

Thu Feb 15 15:27:29 EST 2007

--On 15. Februar 2007 11:40:49 -0800 Daryl Daly <daryld at norco.com> wrote:

>
> What I find as strange is that if the same field is displayed as just text
> (i.e. just in a td element rather than in an input element) it displays
> fine in IE.
>
> My page template has the following headers:
> <html metal:define-macro="page"
>   tal:define="dummy python:request.RESPONSE.setHeader('Content-Type',
> 'text/html;; charset=utf-8');" >
>   <head>
>    <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">

This should be sufficient to display utf8 content.

>
> Firefox reports the page encoding as UTF-8 with meta:
> content-type text/html; charset=utf-8
>
> Input element:
>             <textarea cols="50" name="detail_desc" rows="10"
>                       tal:content="record/detail_desc |
> nothing"></textarea><br>
>
> I have also tried adding accept-charset="utf-8" to the form element

This has applies only when you submit the form.

>
> I have been able to fix the problem by adding this to my zope.conf:
> <cgi-environment>
>   HTTP_ACCEPT_CHARSET utf-8
> </cgi-environment>

Should not play a role here.

>
> I don't understand why this "fixes" the problem or if it is the correct
> way to resolve this.

Unlikely. Does it work with older Zope versions?

-ak
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