Thank you Jonathon for taking the time to make two good suggestions. The
first did not get the apostrophes to appear. WRT the second, one can only
control the encoding of Word when outputting txt files.
I have now created a work around, a bit ugly but the best I can achieve for
the moment.
smart apostrophes should be *’ *for html. So I use textpad and replace
all smart apostrophe's with *’. *I have to do this twice, once for
the left leaning apostrophe and once for the right leaning one.
This is not a nice solution but it does work.
Peter
On Friday, 13 December 2013 02:20:31 UTC, Jonathan Lundell wrote:
>
> On 12 Dec 2013, at 6:12 PM, Jonathan Lundell <jlun...@pobox.com<javascript:>>
> wrote:
>
> On 12 Dec 2013, at 4:16 PM, peter <peterchu...@gmail.com <javascript:>>
> wrote:
>
> I have a word document that I output as a .'.mht; file ie, a 'single file
> web page'.
>
> I can put sections of this into a string field in a database and then
> display the field through a view, and the formatting in the word document
> is preserved.
>
> here is a line from the file that I read into web2py and insert into a
> field in a database.
>
> <p class=3DStyle7
> style=3D'line-height:11.5pt;mso-line-height-rule:exactly'><span
> lang=3DEN-US style=3D'font-family:"Adobe
> Garamond","serif";mso-bidi-font-family: "Adobe Garamond"'>‘One Lettuce Does
> Not a Salad Make’ is similar to Jones’ story .......
>
>
> Everything works fine except the apostrophes in the text disappear.
>
> When I display the field on the screen, there are no apostrophes. I f I
> 'view source', it is as above, but without the apostrophe's before One,
> after Make and after Jones.
>
> Clearly this is an encoding problem. If I read the .mht file into textpad,
> the apostrophe's appear, and textpad says the file is 'ANSI'. The question
> is how do I read the file in such as way as to correctly encode the
> apostrophes?
>
> I have tried various encodings including 'locale.getpreferredencoding()'.
>
>
> Does anyone know how to solve this problem
>
>
> Your email headers suggest that the string (at least in the email) is
> encoded as windows-1252.
>
> So if s is your encoded string, you might try
> s.decode('cp1252').encode('utf8'). Assuming that UTF-8 is OK for output.
>
>
>
> Alternatively, you might try to persuade Word to emit UTF-8 directly. This
> might help:
> http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook-help/choose-text-encoding-when-you-open-and-save-files-HA010121249.aspx
>
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