[Zope] charset problems (utf-8)

Mon Feb 6 15:58:39 UTC 2012

The correct prefix in the HTML header (<meta http-equiv="Content-Type"
content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> is not needed because it affects
the browser behavior only and all my 3 browsers are set to UTF-8 by
default.

I've checked and I have some templates encoded as utf-8 and others as
iso-8859-1. This happens because some of the templates (mainly the
ones encoded as iso-8859-1) come from old data.fs that I've upgraded
and maintained over the years...
But this doesn't seem to be the problem because templates encoded as
utf-8 or iso-8859-1 all have the same problem.

Any more ideas?

BTW, any1 knows about some script I can use to encode everything in my
data.fs to utf-8? That would be very useful!

On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 2:16 PM, Thierry Florac <thierry.florac at onf.fr> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> As a french, I had many charset problems at first because of our
> accentuated characters...
>
> But your problems are quite strange if everything is encoded in UTF-8.
>
> Do you have the correct prefix in your HTML template as well as the
> correct HTTP headers ?
> Can you check that your template is really encoded in UTF-8 ??
>
> Regards,
> Thierry
>
>
> Le Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:38:22 +0000,
>  Hugo Ramos <ramosh at gmail.com> a écrit:
>
>> I guess no one has charset problems...
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 6:06 PM, Hugo Ramos <ramosh at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Yellow,
>> >
>> > I've noticed charset problems displaying HTML pages.
>> >
>> > Let's say I want to display a page using a DTML Method like this:
>> >
>> > <html>
>> > <head>
>> > ...
>> > </head>
>> >
>> > <body>
>> > á Á à À ç
>> > </body>
>> > </html>
>> >
>> > This page is ok and I can see the portuguese letters fine.
>> >
>> > The problem starts when I do this:
>> >
>> > <html>
>> > <head>
>> > ...
>> > </head>
>> >
>> > <body>
>> > á Á à À ç <br>
>> > <dtml-var sometextfield>
>> > </body>
>> > </html>
>> >
>> > The first line of characters shows some strange characters and the
>> > sometextfield shows up fine even if it has the same portuguese
>> > characters.
>> >
>> >
>> > sometextfield comes from a mySQL server using utf-8 as charset and
>> > collation.
>> >
>> > zope.conf has the following:
>> >
>> > rest-input-encoding utf-8
>> > rest-output-encoding utf-8
>> >
>> > The browsers also have UTF-8 as the encoding (safari, firefox and
>> > chrome) all show me the same problem.
>> >
>> > I also noticed some strange behavior...
>> > If I create "á Á à À ç" as a property field using ustring and call
>> > it as <dtml-var someproperty> also gets fine in the browser.
>> >
>> > Anyone seen this??? Double encoding maybe???
>> >
>> >
>> > TIA
>> >
>> > --
>> > Hugo Ramos - IT Project Manager
>> > E: ramosh at gmail.com
>> > W: www.hugoramos.eu
>> >
>> > "Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!" - Monty Python's
>> >
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-- 
Hugo Ramos - IT Project Manager
E: ramosh at gmail.com
W: www.hugoramos.eu

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