[Zope] Character set problems

[Peter Bengtsson]

Set the locale on the Zope installation in zope.conf

If you're unsure about your code, try this
$ set | grep LANG 

On 9/8/05, Niklas Saers <niklassaers at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey guys,
>  I've installed Zope on a FreeBSD server. My problem domain is very small:
> display a list of when people are unavailable, and let people update the
> list. This is all in Danish, and here are come my problems. Danish has three
> extra letters not in the ASCII alfabet, three upper-case and three
> lower-case. When getting the data from a <input name="test" /> where I've
> written "æ ø å Æ Ø Å", I get: æ ø Ã¥ Æ Ø Ã…
>  
>  What is the standard way of ensuring that I get the correct data?
>  
>  I tried writing a little converter, but the string
>  
>  tekst = tekst.replace("\xc3\xa6", "ae");
>  
>  gives me the error UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3
> in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)
>  
>  Do you have any suggestion on how to overcome these problems?
>  
>  Cheers
>  
>     Nik 
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