Hello, I am developing a Django application, and have some Unicode problems. I must admit I do not really understand if my problems are with Django or Python or ... ; but hopefully someone her can shed some light on the problem.
Setup: 1. The application is developed for the Scandinavian countries, and will typically handle various Scandinavian letters like æåø. 2. I am developing everything on Ubuntu Linux. 3. I am using MySQL as database, currently the character_set is set to (the default) latin-1; but I can of course change that. What happens: 1. A user fills out a form containing one of the problematic characters like 'Å'. 2. Django is used to validate the form, and the form content is saved in the MySQL database. 3. I have a view fetching the content from the database, and returning it to a users browser with the render_to_response() function. 4. In addition to rendering the template as browser output I want to store the rendered output in a file (as a hardcopy). This fails with UnicodeDecodeError. The code which fails look schematically like this: template = .... context = .... string_content = render_to_string( template , context ) fileH = open( filename , "w") fileH.write( string_content ) <-- This fails. fileH.close() .... Now - the code which works exactly as it should, i.e. 3. above, is nearly identical but the function render_to_output() is used instead, and no file operations. How does the browser (firefox 3.??) magically get this right? I have also tried replacing the write() statement with write( string_content.encode( 'xxxx' )) where I have tried the encodings 'latin-1' and 'utf-8'; then it does not fail hard, but instead of the wanted 'øåæ' characters I get '?' marks. Any tips on this greatly appreciated. Joakim -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
