[web2py] Encoding and cp1252

2012-07-01 Thread Matt
Hi there, I'm using web2py on GAE and have recently run into some problems with cp1252 characters being submitted via cut and posted text in forms. At present whenever this happens I get exceptions complaining that the string isn't valid unicode. Looking through the web2py codebase I can see t

[web2py] Encoding and cp1252

2012-07-01 Thread Matt
Hi there, I'm using web2py on GAE and have recently run into some problems with cp1252 characters being submitted via cut and posted text in forms. At present whenever this happens I get exceptions complaining that the string isn't valid unicode. Looking through the web2py codebase I can see t