Hi Steve, this is good information as it is a good workaround for the problem that I have been having with my Mako templates with Umlauts( see thread http://groups.google.com/group/pylons-discuss/browse_thread/thread/4d278dee35c62519)
I´m just worried that it seems like a hack and not the official way to set things in Pylons. On May 16, 10:18 am, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Actually, yes, this flag has no effect when i was trying. > But, we have resolved it. We save the .myt file into encoding utf-8, > and add a line to the top of the myt file: > > # encoding: utf-8 > > The Myghty will add the line into the translated .myt.py file like > this: > > # File: templates|base.myt CompilerID: Myghty.Lexer|Myghty.Compiler| > (5, {'disable_unicode': False}) Timestamp: Wed May 16 16:12:52 2007 > # -*- encoding: utf-8 -*- > > so, everything is ok. > > On Apr 5, 11:07 pm, Chris Shenton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Using Pylons-0l9.4.1 and Myghty-1.1. I can't seem to set encoding to > > utf-8 for Myghty or mod_python so that Pylons gets it. > > > My app was working well but just started bombing, likely because one > > of my techs entered a name into a form which had non-ascii chars, and > > then the rendering in the display failed. When I run with debug > > enabled, I get a bit more info: > > > Error: Error(UnicodeDecodeError): 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 > > in position 15: ordinal not in range(128) > > File: /usr/local/clientproj/er/templates/vendor_show.myt line 11 > > Context: 8: > > <tr><th>Client Name</th><th>Updated</th><th>Created</th></tr> > > 9: % for client in c.clients: > > 10: <tr> > > 11: <td><a href="<%h.url_for('client_show', > > client_id=client.client_id)%>"><%client.name%></a></td> > > 12: <td><%client.ts_updated%></td> > > 13: <td><%client.ts_created%></td> > > 14: </tr> > > > Error - myghty.exception.Error: Error(UnicodeDecodeError?): > > 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 15: ordinal not > > in range(128) at > > > > /usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/Myghty-1.1-py2.4.egg/myghty/requestbuffer.py > > line 367 > > > I've read up on this and found suggestions in > > > http://www.myghty.org/docs/params.myt#parameters_output_encoding > > > to set encoding in config/environment.py, which I've done: > > > myghty = {} > > myghty['log_errors'] = True > > myghty['escapes'] = dict(l=webhelpers.auto_link, > > s=webhelpers.simple_format) > > > myghty['output_encoding'] = 'utf-8' > > myghty['encoding_errors'] = 'htmlentityreplace' > > > return pylons.config.Config(myghty, map, paths) > > > but this didn't help. The error continued to complain about "ascii" > > codec so it looks like this setting above isn't getting seen by > > myghty. It also suggested setting this in the mod_python section of > > my Apache config, which I also tried: > > > <Location /er> > > SetHandler mod_python > > Pythonhandler mod_python.wsgi > > PythonPath "['/usr/local/clientjob] + sys.path" > > PythonOption wsgi.application startup-bluecoat::app > > PythonOption SCRIPT_NAME /er > > # 2007-04-05 setting in config/environment.py isnt' working? > > PythonOption MyghtyOutputEncoding "utf-8" > > PythonOption MyghtyEncodingErrors > > "htmlentityreplace" > > </Location> > > > But this also had no effect, same complaint about "ascii". > > >http://pylonshq.com/docs/internationalization.htmlsaidI could do the > > following, again in config/environment.py: > > > tmpl_options['myghty.output_encoding'] = 'UTF-8' > > > but that file didn't know about the "tmpl_options" dict. > > > I've seen similar suggestion to the above in a #pylons IRC transcript > > but none of these are working for me. Why is it still using an > > "ascii" codec when I've set it in two different places? > > > I've tried removing the template cache .py and .pyc files but that had > > no effect. > > > I was finally able to get things to work by creating > > .../site-packages/sitecustomize.py: > > > import sys > > sys.setdefaultencoding('utf-8') > > > and saw that one of my clients names was an O-umlaut. (Should I now > > expect surprises from other things, like the fact that I'm not using > > unicode strings in my python?) > > > I'd really like to do this in Pylons or Myghty instead than site-wide > > and don't understand why the documented mechanisms don't work for me. > > > Any suggestions? Thanks. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pylons-discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to pylons-discuss@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/pylons-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---