write html-headers (utf-8)

**Martin v. Löwis** · Jul 19 '05, 01:42 AM

Re: write html-headers (utf-8)

db wrote:[color=blue]
> In this template I write a few Mysql variables.
> Those variable often have german characters. This characters (GÃ¶sing in
> stead of Gösing). The german characters in the html template are shown
> correctly.[/color]

The problem is then with these variables: apparently, the Mysql
variables are encoded in iso-8859-15, and you need to recode them
to UTF-8 first before putting them into the template.

var = var.decode("iso-8859-15").encode("ut f-8")
[color=blue]
> As you can see, I put in the header of the html template that the encoding
> is UTF-8, the browser still shows windows ISO-8859-15. Can I write the
> header with python so the browser uses the utf-8 encoding?[/color]

The problem is not the header, but the body. The browser sees your claim
that the page is UTF-8, but doesn't believe it. This is because it tries
to interpret the page as UTF-8, and then finds invalid byte sequences
(your latin-9 characters), and then knows that the page *can't* be
UTF-8. It then guesses that the page must be latin-something. That guess
is wrong, of course, also, because some characters in the page are
utf-8, and others latin-9. This is invalid HTML.

Regards,
Martin

**Benjamin Niemann** · Jul 19 '05, 01:42 AM

Re: write html-headers (utf-8)

db wrote:
[color=blue]
> Hello all,
>
> I hope this is the correct newsgroup for this question.
>
> Does anybody know how I can write a html-header with python(cgi)?
> The problem is, I have a few html templates in which I have a header e.g:
>
> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
> "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"> <html>
> <head>
> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
>
> In this template I write a few Mysql variables.
> Those variable often have german characters. This characters (GÃ¶sing in
> stead of Gösing). The german characters in the html template are shown
> correctly.
>
> If I change the character encoding with the browser to utf-8, all the
> characters are shown correctly. As you can see, I put in the header of the
> html template that the encoding is UTF-8, the browser still shows windows
> ISO-8859-15. Can I write the header with python so the browser uses the
> utf-8 encoding?
>
> My hosting providor uses fedora core 2, Python 2.2.3, MySQLdb. Mysql
> 3.23.58
>
> I googled for hours, but I can't find the answer. I hope ypu can help me.[/color]
Does your browser send a Content-Type HTTP header (don't confuse this with
the HTML <head> part)? If it does and it specifies a charset, this will
override your <meta http-equiv>. Often iso-8859-1 is the default charset
for the Content-Type header.

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Benjamin Niemann
Email: pink at odahoda dot de
WWW: http://www.odahoda.de/

**Kent Johnson** · Jul 19 '05, 01:42 AM

Re: write html-headers (utf-8)

db wrote:[color=blue]
> Hello all,
>
> I hope this is the correct newsgroup for this question.
>
> Does anybody know how I can write a html-header with python(cgi)?
> The problem is, I have a few html templates in which I have a header e.g:
>
> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
> <html>
> <head>
> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">[/color]

If you are using CGI you can set the Content-Type header directly. Before you output your HTML do
print "Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8"
print # blank line, end of headers

Kent

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