Hi Anton,
I don't have mysql5 to test with right now, but I have tested my stuff
against sqlite and it seems to work there, so I can't imagine that
this will cause you problems on mysql.
My usecase is probably like yours - I need multilingual support since
I have to handle names of countries and people from all over the
world.
vic
On 12/11/06, mezhaka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Dec 11, 6:02 am, "Victor Ng" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > The unicode problem seems to creep up in this list a lot, so here's
> > what I've done to solve my problems.
> >
> > My particular problem is that I need to be able to deal with Unicode
> > data in the URLs as well as the regular request GET/POST data.
> >
> > This is a piece of middleware that I'm using to force all incoming
> > data to be UTF-8. If you also add in a meta tag in your head section
> > of your template to declare utf-8, I think IE will actually do the
> > right thing and not do it's weird charset guessing.
> >
> > Setting that meta tag, along with explicitly seting the
> > settings.DEFAULT_CHARSET to 'utf-8', and then applying this middleware
> > layer seems to get all my string data inside Django to be clean UTF8
> > data.
> >
> > This has the advantage over a 'full' unicode conversion of Django
> > since you don't have to touch any existing Django code, and you don't
> > have to enforce non-obvious rules like implementing "__unicode__" and
> > using "unicode()" instead of "str()" everywhere.
> >
> > Anyway, I hope this is of use to people.
> >
> > The utf8encode function is probably overly paranoid, but well... I
> > really don't trust IE to send properly encoded data.
> >
> > vic
> >
> > 1 import types
> > 2
> > 3 '''
> > 4 This filter will force any incoming GET or POST data to become
> > UTF8 data for
> > 5 processing inside of Django.
> > 6 '''
> > 7
> > 8 class UTF8Filter(object):
> > 9 def process_request(self, request):
> > 10 get_parms = request.GET
> > 11 post_parms = request.POST
> > 12
> > 13 request.GET._mutable = True
> > 14 request.POST._mutable = True
> > 15
> > 16 for cgiargs in [request.GET, request.POST]:
> > 17 for key, vallist in cgiargs.items():
> > 18 tmp_values = []
> > 19 if isinstance(vallist, types.ListType):
> > 20 for i, val in enumerate(vallist):
> > 21 tmp_values.append(utf8_encode(val))
> > 22 else:
> > 23 tmp_values = [utf8_encode(vallist),]
> > 24
> > 25 cgiargs.setlist(key, tmp_values)
> > 26
> > 27 # Rewrite the request path as UTF8 data for Ajax calls
> > 28 request.path = utf8_encode(request.path)
> > 29
> > 30 request.GET._mutable = False
> > 31 request.POST._mutable = False
> > 32
> > 33 return None
> > 34
> > 35 def utf8_encode(val):
> > 36 try:
> > 37 tmp = val.decode('utf8')
> > 38 except:
> > 39 try:
> > 40 tmp = val.decode('latin1')
> > 41 except:
> > 42 tmp= val.decode('ascii', 'ignore')
> > 43 tmp = tmp.encode('utf8')
> > 44 return tmp
>
> What was your motivation to create all this?
> The reason I am asking, I suppose my problem
> (http://groups-beta.google.com/group/django-users/browse_thread/thread/a9b53db451aa4590)
> is somehow related to these issues.
>
>
> >
>
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