[Zope3-Users] Zope and UTF-8 accentuated characters
Marius Gedminas
mgedmin at b4net.lt
Sat Aug 26 08:58:48 EDT 2006
On Sat, Aug 26, 2006 at 02:34:55PM +0200, Stéphane Brault wrote:
> I have a lot of unicode data with accentuated characters. The trouble
> is that it is sometimes displayed the right way (in combo boxes,
> lists,.. ) and sometimes not, especially in text inputs.
I use Unicode data in my Zope 3 applications extensively, and usually
there are no problems.
> The input data is saved correctly but not displayed correctly (é is
> saved the following the utf-8 format and displayed as é, which
> corresponds the utf-8 encoding).
It is customary to store Unicode data in Python's unicode strings rather
than in UTF-8 encoded 8-bit strings.
Can you check what your web browser thinks about the page's charset? If
it selects ISO-8859-1, then your data is presented correctly, but the
server did not specify the correct Content-Type header. If the browser
thinks the page is in UTF-8, then the server mishandled the data.
Zope 3 automatically converts Unicode to UTF-8 and adds 'charset=UTF-8'
to the Content-Type header when a view returns a Unicode string. This
is the recommended way of handling Unicode data in Zope 3, and this is
what happens by default if your views render page templates.
> I tried defining my templates' charset as utf-8, but that generates lots
> of errors. Has anyone an idea on how to solve this problem.
You have not told us enough to diagnose the problem. Can you reproduce
it with a shortest possible test case?
Marius Gedminas
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