Encoding problem with web application (Paste+Mako)

[msj]

Hi

I have a problem with encoding non-ascii characters in a web
application. The application uses Paste and Mako.

The code is here: http://www.webudkast.dk/demo.txt

The main points are:

After getting some user generated input using
paste.request.parse_formvars, how should this be correctly saved to
file?

How should this afterward be read from the file, and fed correctly
into a Mako template?

Thanks.
Martin

 

[Rob Wolfe]

Hi

I have a problem with encoding non-ascii characters in a web
application. The application uses Paste and Mako.

The code is here: http://www.webudkast.dk/demo.txt

The main points are:

After getting some user generated input using
paste.request.parse_formvars, how should this be correctly saved to
file?

How should this afterward be read from the file, and fed correctly
into a Mako template?

You have to know the encoding of user input and then you
can use ``input_encoding`` and ``output_encoding`` parameters
of ``Template``. Mako internally handles everything as Python unicode
objects.
For example:

t = Template(filename="templ.mako", input_encoding="iso-8859-2",
output_encoding="iso-8859-2")
content = t.render(**context)

 

[Martin Skou]

You have to know the encoding of user input and then you
can use ``input_encoding`` and ``output_encoding`` parameters
of ``Template``. Mako internally handles everything as Python unicode
objects.
For example:

t = Template(filename="templ.mako", input_encoding="iso-8859-2",
output_encoding="iso-8859-2")
content = t.render(**context)

Thanks Rob

Using:

t=Template(content,input_encoding="utf-8", output_encoding="utf-8")

did the trick. Thanks for the help.

/Martin