Exactly like Vriens said, it's a problem of encoding.
Your best bet is to use UTF-8 all across. Set your DB to use UTF-8, use
a UTF-8 capable editor, add a meta tag to your html to indicate the
UTF-8 encoding. etc.
On Dec 28, 11:49 am, "Marijn P. Vriens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Thursday 28 December 2006 11:18, dutche wrote:
> I don't know why, but when I write or take from the Database a word
> with some kind of accent, Django shows a "?" instead. Why?? I've
> changed the language in settings.py and even the TimeZone. If I escape
> the chars with something like "á" it works, so isn't a problem
> with my browser, right?Well, your browser may not be detecting the "character
encoding" correctly. If
your data comes from a database that has it stored as "ISO-8859-1" and the
browser thinks it's UTF-8, generally you get a mess. Equally important is the
character encoding that your editor uses when it saves files like templates.
Your best bet is to standarize on one character encoding. Using UTF-8 for
everything is probably the most future-proof.
> Does anybody knows what can be it?? I've made a simple test to see what
> the template returns, and it returns the "string" below:
> >>> t = Template("My special letters are : áéíóú")
> >>> c = Context({})
> >>> t.render(c)
> 'My special letters are : \xe1\xe9\xed\xf3\xfa'
> >>> print t.render(c)
> My special letters are : áéíóúIf you do something on the commandline, you
also have to check what encoding
is being used by your terminal to display the characters back to you.
> Any idea?It is a mess, and has been for a while. It will go away when
everybody agrees
to use the same encoding. I fear, it will be with us for a long time :-/.
> Thanks
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