You probably need to set stdout mode to binary. They are not by default on Windows.
"weheh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > 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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