On Sat, Jun 29, 2019 at 6:31 AM Tobiah <t...@tobiah.org> wrote: > > A guy comes in and enters his last name as RÖnngren. > > So what did the browser really give me; is it encoded > in some way, like latin-1? Does it depend on whether > the name was cut and pasted from a Word doc. etc? > Should I handle these internally as unicode? Right > now my database tables are latin-1 and things seem > to usually work, but not always.
Definitely handle them as Unicode. You'll receive them in some encoding, probably UTF-8, and it depends on the browser. Ideally, your back-end library (eg Flask) will deal with that for you. > Also, what do people do when searching for a record. > Is there some way to get 'Ronngren' to match the other > possible foreign spellings? Ehh....... probably not. That's a human problem, not a programming one. Best of luck. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
