Dominique Ramaekers wrote: > As I suspected, if I check the used encoding in wsgi I get: > ANSI_X3.4-1968 > > I found you can define the coding of the script with a special comment: > # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- > > Now I don't get an error but my special chars still doesn't display well. > The script: > # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- > import sys > def application(environ, start_response): > status = '200 OK' > output = 'Hello World! é ü à ũ' > #output = sys.getfilesystemencoding() #1 > > response_headers = [('Content-type', 'text/plain'), > ('Content-Length', str(len(output)))] > start_response(status, response_headers) > > return [output] > > Gives in the browser as output: > > Hello World! é ü à ũ
That's UTF-8 interpreted as Latin-1. Try specifying the charset in the header: ... response_headers = [('Content-type', 'text/plain; charset=utf-8'), ... > And if I check the encoding with the python script (uncommenting line > #1), I still get ANSI_X3.4-1968 -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list