Re: Handle foreign character web input

2019-06-29 Thread Alan Meyer via Python-list
On 6/28/19 4:25 PM, Tobiah 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

Re: Do I need a parser?

2019-06-29 Thread Alan Meyer via Python-list
On 6/29/19 8:39 AM, josé mariano wrote: Dear all, I'm sure that this subject has been addressed many times before on this forum, but my poor knowledge of English and of computer jargon and concepts results on not being able to find the answer i'm looking for when I search the forum. So here i