I'm getting this:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/django-code/aubrey_explore/tests.py", line 18, in
testSpeaking
self.assert_(markdown(self.bla.collection_description_short))
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/django/contrib/markup/
templatetags/markup.py", line 72, in markdown
return mark_safe(force_unicode(markdown.markdown(smart_str(value),
extensions, safe_mode=safe_mode)))
File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/markdown.py", line 1722, in
markdown
return md.convert(text)
File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/markdown.py", line 1614, in
convert
self.source = removeBOM(self.source, self.encoding)
File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/markdown.py", line 74, in
removeBOM
if text.startswith(bom):
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position
292: ordinal not in range(128)
On Jun 1, 1:49 pm, Karen Tracey <kmtra...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 2:26 PM, bfrederi <brfrederi...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I am having problems using the
> > django.contrib.markup.templatetags.markup.markdown function with
> > special characters (diacritics and such).
>
> > I am using markdown in my model and creating a function that returns
> > markdown from a model field. I even went as far as to override the
> > save method for my model, and encode the field data as "utf-8" prior
> > to the field data being saved, like so:
>
> > def save(self):
> > """Overrides the Model's save method """
> > self.collection_description_short =
> > self.collection_description_short.encode("utf-8")
> > self.collection_description_long =
> > self.collection_description_long.encode("utf-8")
> > super(MyModel, self).save()
>
> > When I try to retrieve it and return the field data in a function, I
> > do this:
>
> > from django.contrib.markup.templatetags.markup import markdown
>
> > def collection_description_short_markdown(self):
> > """ Generate markdown out of the short description text """
> > if self.collection_description_short:
> > try:
> > markdown_html = markdown
> > (self.collection_description_short)
> > except:
> > return "Fail"
> > return markdown_html
> > else:
> > return None
>
> > And the markdown function always fails if there is a special character
> > in the field data.
>
> > Any suggestions?
>
> Get rid of the try/except/return "Fail" so that you get feedback on what,
> exactly, the problem is. What you've done there is hide whatever specific
> error/exception message markdown may have provided and replaced it with a
> generic "Fail" that doesn't convey any information as to what might be
> wrong. I'd hope markdown is a bit more specific about what it is having
> trouble with, and that should give a clue how to fix it.
>
> Karen
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