Thanks for the reply, Jack. I tried setting mode to binary but it had no affect.
"Jack" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > 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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