Karen I did as you said and it is amazing what know-how can do. I am yours forever. Ulferik
On 16 Nov, 16:20, Karen Tracey <kmtra...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 10:08 AM, ulferik <ulfe...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > Thank's Karen for your reply. > > With php+smarty I do the same I make a base template on which I have > > some > > stuff that is the same for all. In the template I place a meta tag > > with charset=ISO-8859-1 > > and everything is fine. > > The meta tag, I'd guess, will affect how the browser interprets the data. > > > With Django it doesn't make any difference > > what I place in meta or > > xml tags. The template is processed and it is UTF-8 whether I like it > > or not. > > This not a matter of database or views or models it is a base > > template. > > I have read the manual regarding charset and I can't make any sence > > from it. What I need > > is an example that shows how to... > > FILE_CHARSET is a setting, so you need to put it in your settings.py file, > not in any template file. Include: > > FILE_CHARSET = 'iso-8859-1' > > in your settings.py file (and, if necessary, restart your server). Then > Django will stop assuming that your template files are encoded in utf-8 and > instead will read them assuming iso-8859-1 encoding. > > Note if you also want to retrain this encoding, instead of utf-8, for all > responses sent by your application, you will need to also set > DEFAULT_CHARSET: > > http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/settings/#default-charset > > By default Django will encode outgoing responses in utf-8, so if you want to > send your responses with another encoding you need to change this one also. > But I am not sure why you would want to do that instead of just sending the > response using utf-8? > > Karen -- 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=.
