On Mar 4, 6:45 am, Joakim Hove <joakim.h...@gmail.com> wrote: > About every once a year I am forced out on the internet to read about > "encodings and such"; while reading about it all makes sense, but when > actually trying to get things to work I always go through a period of > swearing and frustration - I never really get it :-( > > Now, in a Django view I have a selectionlist, and one of the seletions > should contain the Norwegian problem child 'å'. I have tried the > following: > > 1, I have explicitly used the HTML syntax å - however in this > case Django ended up rendering the '&' as '&', i.e. as if I wanted > a literal '&'.
Nothing to do with encodings, this is autoescaping at work. See http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.1/topics/templates/#id2 > 2. I just entered the 'å' in the Python source code for the view. Then > a get a Python run.-time error stating that I must declare an encoding > when using non-ASCII characters. I then tried declaring the encoding > 'latin-1' in the top of the source file of the view, this gave a > UnicodeDecodeError triggered by Django: > > 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe5 in position 14: ordinal > not in range(128) > > Any hints? Please show the code. -- DR. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-us...@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.
