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Re: Unicode in cgi-script with apache2

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Dominique Ramaekers wrote:

> As I suspected, if I check the used encoding in wsgi I get:
> ANSI_X3.4-1968
> 
> I found you can define the coding of the script with a special comment:
> # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
> 
> Now I don't get an error but my special chars still doesn't display well.
> The script:
> # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
> import sys
> def application(environ, start_response):
>      status = '200 OK'
>      output = 'Hello World! é ü à ũ'
>      #output = sys.getfilesystemencoding() #1
> 
>      response_headers = [('Content-type', 'text/plain'),
>                          ('Content-Length', str(len(output)))]
>      start_response(status, response_headers)
> 
>      return [output]
> 
> Gives in the browser as output:
> 
> Hello World! é ü à ũ

That's UTF-8 interpreted as Latin-1. Try specifying the charset in the 
header:

...
response_headers = [('Content-type', 'text/plain; charset=utf-8'),
...
 
> And if I check the encoding with the python script (uncommenting line
> #1), I still get ANSI_X3.4-1968

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Unicode in cgi-script with apache2 Dominique Ramaekers <dominique@ramaekers-stassart.be> - 2014-08-15 20:10 +0200
  Re: Unicode in cgi-script with apache2 alister <alister.nospam.ware@ntlworld.com> - 2014-08-15 19:27 +0000
    Re: Unicode in cgi-script with apache2 Dominique Ramaekers <dominique@ramaekers-stassart.be> - 2014-08-17 00:36 +0200
      Re: Unicode in cgi-script with apache2 Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2014-08-17 02:50 +0000
        Re: Unicode in cgi-script with apache2 Dominique Ramaekers <dominique@ramaekers-stassart.be> - 2014-08-17 07:32 +0200
        Re: Unicode in cgi-script with apache2 Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-08-17 17:50 +1000
          Re: Unicode in cgi-script with apache2 Dominique Ramaekers <dominique@ramaekers-stassart.be> - 2014-08-17 11:40 +0200
          Re: Unicode in cgi-script with apache2 wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2014-08-17 03:05 -0700
          Re: Unicode in cgi-script with apache2 Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2014-08-17 13:04 +0200
          Re: Unicode in cgi-script with apache2 Dominique Ramaekers <dominique@ramaekers-stassart.be> - 2014-08-17 13:34 +0200
          Re: Unicode in cgi-script with apache2 Dominique Ramaekers <dominique@ramaekers-stassart.be> - 2014-08-17 14:02 +0200
            Re: Unicode in cgi-script with apache2 Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-08-17 23:00 +1000
              Re: Unicode in cgi-script with apache2 wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2014-08-17 08:56 -0700
          Re: Unicode in cgi-script with apache2 Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-08-17 13:35 +0100
            Re: Unicode in cgi-script with apache2 Tony the Tiger <tony@tiger.invalid> - 2014-08-18 04:39 +0000
          Re: Unicode in cgi-script with apache2 Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2014-08-17 15:12 +0200
          Re: Unicode in cgi-script with apache2 Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2014-08-17 16:06 +0200
      Re: Unicode in cgi-script with apache2 Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-08-17 15:54 +1000
  Re: Unicode in cgi-script with apache2 John Gordon <gordon@panix.com> - 2014-08-15 19:32 +0000
    Re: Unicode in cgi-script with apache2 Dominique Ramaekers <dominique@ramaekers-stassart.be> - 2014-08-17 00:39 +0200
  Re: Unicode in cgi-script with apache2 Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2014-08-16 16:40 +0000
    Re: Unicode in cgi-script with apache2 Dominique Ramaekers <dominique@ramaekers-stassart.be> - 2014-08-17 00:57 +0200
  Re: Unicode in cgi-script with apache2 wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2014-08-17 01:08 -0700

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