On Sat, Jun 29, 2019 at 7:01 AM Tobiah <t...@tobiah.org> wrote: > > > On 6/28/19 1:33 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:> On Sat, Jun 29, 2019 at 6:31 AM > Tobiah <t...@tobiah.org> wrote: > >> > >> A guy comes in and enters his last name as RÖnngren. > >> > >> So what did the browser really give me; is it encoded > >> in some way, like latin-1? Does it depend on whether > >> the name was cut and pasted from a Word doc. etc? > >> Should I handle these internally as unicode? Right > >> now my database tables are latin-1 and things seem > >> to usually work, but not always. > > > > Definitely handle them as Unicode. You'll receive them in some > > encoding, probably UTF-8, and it depends on the browser. Ideally, your > > back-end library (eg Flask) will deal with that for you. > It varies by browser? > So these records are coming in from all over the world. How > do people handle possibly assorted encodings that may come in? > > I'm using Web2py. Does the request come in with an encoding > built in? Is that how people get the proper unicode object?
Yes. Normally, the browser will say "hey, here's a request body, and this is the encoding and formatting". Try it - see what you get. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
