On 12 Dec 2013, at 6:12 PM, Jonathan Lundell <jlund...@pobox.com> wrote:
> On 12 Dec 2013, at 4:16 PM, peter <peterchutchin...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I have a word document that I output as a .'.mht; file ie, a 'single file
>> web page'.
>>
>> I can put sections of this into a string field in a database and then
>> display the field through a view, and the formatting in the word document is
>> preserved.
>>
>> here is a line from the file that I read into web2py and insert into a field
>> in a database.
>>
>> <p class=3DStyle7
>> style=3D'line-height:11.5pt;mso-line-height-rule:exactly'><span lang=3DEN-US
>> style=3D'font-family:"Adobe Garamond","serif";mso-bidi-font-family: "Adobe
>> Garamond"'>‘One Lettuce Does Not a Salad Make’ is similar to Jones’ story
>> .......
>>
>>
>> Everything works fine except the apostrophes in the text disappear.
>>
>> When I display the field on the screen, there are no apostrophes. I f I
>> 'view source', it is as above, but without the apostrophe's before One,
>> after Make and after Jones.
>>
>> Clearly this is an encoding problem. If I read the .mht file into textpad,
>> the apostrophe's appear, and textpad says the file is 'ANSI'. The question
>> is how do I read the file in such as way as to correctly encode the
>> apostrophes?
>>
>> I have tried various encodings including 'locale.getpreferredencoding()'.
>>
>>
>> Does anyone know how to solve this problem
>>
>
> Your email headers suggest that the string (at least in the email) is encoded
> as windows-1252.
>
> So if s is your encoded string, you might try
> s.decode('cp1252').encode('utf8'). Assuming that UTF-8 is OK for output.
>
>
Alternatively, you might try to persuade Word to emit UTF-8 directly. This
might help:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook-help/choose-text-encoding-when-you-open-and-save-files-HA010121249.aspx
--
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.
