On Tuesday, September 24, 2013 4:46:13 AM UTC+10, Massimo Di Pierro wrote: > > What is the code that generates this: > > <FONT FACE="Arial, serif"> > > certainly there is no font tag anywhere in web2py. It was deprecated in > HTML years ago. >
Hi Massimo, I believe it comes from Microsoft Word. But the important thing is that <FONT FACE="Arial, serif">... is the value for the text field. And that value also contains UTF-8 characters. David > > On Monday, 23 September 2013 09:00:28 UTC-5, David Austin wrote: >> >> >> Hi All, >> >> I'm seeing a number of error tickets generated in the guts of web2py >> stemming from a form.accepts() call. >> >> >> File "xxxx/web2py/gluon/html.py", line 856, in _traverse >> >> self._postprocessing() >> File "xxxxx/web2py/gluon/html.py", line 1774, in _postprocessing >> _value = str(self['_value']) >> UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u2026' in >> position 55: ordinal not in range(128) >> >> >> The character in question appears to be a UTF-8 ellipsis (...). >> >> I thought that this may have been a browser issue - but I think now it's >> just a web2py problem with text INPUTs containing >> "interesting" characters - even in the values. The generated HTML looks >> like: >> >> <input id="word_name" type="text" value="<FONT FACE="Arial, serif"><FONT >> SIZE=2>as/so far as … is/are concerned</font></font>" name="name"> >> >> which seems to have two issues - the double quotes in the value are not >> escaped and the ellipsis (probably >> ok HTML) is then going to generate the ticket I'm seeing at >> str(self['_value']). >> >> David >> >> -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
