On Feb 11, 6:44 pm, Karen Tracey <kmtra...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 2:30 PM, Joshua Russo <joshua.rupp...@gmail.com>wrote: > > > Thanks so much. I think you are right. I will let you know tomorrow if > > I was able to fix it. I just need to figure out where the encoding is > > set in NetBeans and Textpad. I use a combination of both of them. > > > It's possible that I didn't have the "u" when I created the message, > > though I was receiving an error of some sort with and without the "u". > > Yes, you would get an error both with and without the u'', just at different > times, and the one you showed was the one you would get without the u'', not > with it. > > When you specify an encoding declaration of utf-8 in the file, and use u'' > around a string that is not in fact utf-8 encoded, the Python interpreter > will raise an error when you try to import the file. Python uses the > encoding declaration for the file to decode the string inside the u'' when > the file is loaded; if the string can't be decoded using the file-declared > encoding, you'll get an error. But that is not the error your reported. > > If you don't use u'' around the string, Python doesn't do anything special > with it when the file is imported, it's just a bytestring. Later on when > Django has to convert it to unicode, it tries to do so assuming a utf-8 > encoding, which will fail if the string isn't utf-8 encoded. This is the > error you reported. > > Karen
Success!!! The files where absolutely in iso8859-1. I found where I needed to set UTF-8 in NetBeans and TextPad and everything worked perfectly. Karen and Ramiro thanks for all your help! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
