[Zope] unicode support

[Garry Saddington]

On Friday 27 June 2008 07:42, Andreas Jung wrote:
> --On 27. Juni 2008 06:42:28 +0000 Garry Saddington
>
> <garry at schoolteachers.co.uk> wrote:
> > On Friday 27 June 2008 05:38, Andreas Jung wrote:
> >> --On 26. Juni 2008 22:05:06 +0000 Garry Saddington
> >>
> >> <garry at schoolteachers.co.uk> wrote:
> >> > On Thursday 26 June 2008 15:12, Andreas Jung wrote:
> >> >> --On 26. Juni 2008 14:09:50 +0000 Garry Saddington
> >> >>
> >> >> <garry at schoolteachers.co.uk> wrote:
> >> >> > I am using Zope 2.9 connected to a Posgres DB via psycopg. My
> >> >> > database encoding is UTF8.  I am getting the following error when
> >> >> > users try to insert text in the database containing £ signs:
> >> >> > ERROR: invalid byte sequence for encoding "UTF8": 0xa3
> >> >> >
> >> >> > This is due to the encoding of a £ sign in the text being sent to
> >> >> > the DB. My question then is how do I make sure that all encodings
> >> >> > submiitted from forms are in the correct UTF8 format? Regards
> >> >>
> >> >> Use ensure that the HTML page uses UTF-8 as encoding
> >> >> (either using <meta-equiv...> within the HTML page or by sending
> >> >>
> >> >> content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8
> >> >>
> >> >> as HTTP header.
> >> >
> >> > I have taken this a little further after trying all suggestions in the
> >> > thread with no success and looked into zope.conf, specifically:
> >> >
> >> ># Directive: default_zpublisher_encoding
> >> >#
> >> ># Description:
> >> >#     This controls what character set is used to encode unicode
> >> >#     data that reaches ZPublisher without any other specified
> >> > encoding. #
> >> ># Default: iso-8859-15
> >> >#
> >> ># Example:
> >> >#
> >> >#    default_zpublisher_encoding utf-8
> >> >
> >> > As my pages all report as iso-8859-15 I thought a change here would
> >> > help, but this happens:
> >> >
> >> >   from OFS.content_types import guess_content_type
> >> > Error: 'default_zpublisher_encoding' is not a known key name
> >> >
> >> > It works on this:  Zope Version  (Zope 2.9.0, python 2.4.2, win32)
> >> >
> >> > And fails on this:  Zope Version  (Zope 2.9.0-, python 2.4.5, linux2)
> >>
> >> Totally wrong approach modifying the zpublisher encoding here.  As said
> >> you have two options:
> >>
> >> - <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
> >>   with in your HTML
> >>
> >> . <tal:call define="dummy python: request.RESPONSE('content-type',
> >> 'text/html;; charset=utf-8')" /> within your template
> >
> > And if I were to use DTML?
>
> DTML? In a similar way...You know  dtml-let or something like that.
> You know that stuff like 'request' 'context' etc. is available
> in PythonScripts, ZPT and DTML is some way...everything is the same object.
>
Yes, thanks for your help.
Kind regards
Garry