I do not know but could it be you have a meta http-equiv
in the html head? On Nov 8, 4:07 pm, Benigno <bca...@albendas.com> wrote: > hmmm, > > But why does it interpret it differently when the text is in an > include than when the text is in the layout.html? If I copy and paste > the texts into the layout they appear correctly, whereas if they are > in the index.html (which is the one that extends layout), then the > don't. > > On Nov 8, 5:20 pm, Jonathan Lundell <jlund...@pobox.com> wrote: > > > On Nov 8, 2009, at 7:33 AM, Benigno wrote: > > > > I didnt explain myself correctly. I am setting the <meta http- > > > equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" /> > > > dinamically when in spanish. However, the accented words still show > > > badly. > > > The character set specified by the http header takes precedence over > > the meta tag, and web2py does this: > > > class HTTP(BaseException): > > ... > > def to(self, responder): > > ... > > if not 'Content-Type' in self.headers: > > self.headers['Content-Type'] = 'text/html; charset=UTF-8' > > > It can be overridden, as you see, but I don't know what all the > > implications of that would be. Sticking to utf-8 might be a better > > choice. > > > > Massimo: > > > I dont understand exactly what you mean, whats the correct way to > > > do this then?. > > > > On Nov 8, 4:06 pm, salingrosso <salingro...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> 2009/11/8 mdipierro <mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu> > > > >>> You do not have the option of using latin1. utf8 is set by web2py in > > >>> the http header. > > > >> But in layout.html I see: > > >> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; > > >> charset=UTF-8" /> > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To post to this group, send email to web2py@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/web2py?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
