Dear web gods: After much, much, much struggle with unicode, many an hour reading all the examples online, coding them, testing them, ripping them apart and putting them back together, I am humbled. Therefore, I humble myself before you to seek guidance on a simple python unicode cgi-bin scripting problem.
My problem is more complex than this, but how about I boil down one sticking point for starters. I have a file with a Spanish word in it, "años", which I wish to read with: #!C:/Program Files/Python23/python.exe STARTHTML= u'''Content-Type: text/html <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd";> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"; lang="en" xml:lang="en"> <head> </head> <body> ''' ENDHTML = u''' </body> </html> ''' print STARTHTML print open('c:/test/spanish.txt','r').read() print ENDHTML Instead of seeing "año" I see "a?o". BAD BAD BAD Yet, if I open the file with the browser (IE/Mozilla), I see "año." THIS IS WHAT I WANT WHAT GIVES? Next, I'll get into codecs and stuff, but how about starting with this? The general question is, does anybody have a complete working example of a cgi-bin script that does the above properly that they'd be willing to share? I've tried various examples online but haven't been able to get any to work. I end up seeing hex code for the non-ascii characters u'a\xf1o', and later on 'a\xc3\xb1o', which are also BAD BAD BAD. Thanks -- your humble supplicant.
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