[Zope] How to support Chinese Characters in ZMI?

Dieter Maurer dieter at handshake.de
Thu Apr 29 18:13:14 EDT 2004


Lian Liming wrote at 2004-4-28 20:34 -0500:
>    I find that the ZMI doesn't support Chinese very well. I type some
>chinese characters in the ZMI, and after "save change",  the
>characters didn't display well.
>    The default charset for ZMI is "ISO-8859" which doesn't support Chinese.
>     I want to change it to "UTF-8" to support Chinese.
>     My zope version is 2.6.4 and i don't want to upgrade to 2.7.  Is
>there some way to solve the problem in v2.6?
>      Thanks in advance!

You can define a property (e.g. at the "Root folder") with
the name "management_page_charset". It controls the charset
of management pages.

When you look at "App/manage_page_header.dtml", you can see
how this definition is used.
You can do something similar in your own templates.

-- 
Dieter



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