On 30 Jul 2006, at 14:08, Mikko Nylén wrote: > I tried to change all 'ä's with \xe4 and 'ö's with \xf6 and with > those I was > able to make the messages compile. However, when trying to launch the > built-in server, I get error saying "UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' > codec can't > decode bytes in position 26-28: invalid data". > > I'm using Vim as my editor and I have set "set encoding=utf-8" > in .vimrc. > Also, in the django.po I have line "Content-Type: text/plain; > charset=utf-8". Is there something else I'm missing?
I don’t know much about Vim, but it appears your ö and ä are entered with an encoding different than UTF-8. Python then tries to decode your characters thinking they might be valid UTF-8, but they are not, so it raises the UnicodeDecodeError. FYI: ä (LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH DIAERESIS) in UTF-8 is \xc3\xa4, whereas \xe4 is its encoded form in ISO-8859-1/Latin-1 (and ISO-8859-10/Latin-6 as well, I haven’t looked at other encodings). I googled a bit, and found this page [1] where it says that to set your Vim to the UTF-8 encoding you have to use the following command (note the column at the beginning): :set encoding=utf-8 [1] http://www.vim.org/htmldoc/mbyte.html > Also, I'd like to ask how different timezones should be handled? I'm > building an application where it would be necessary for the users > to be able > to choose their own timezone to display date and time information > correctly. > One option would be, of course, to save the date and time returned by > datetime.utcnow() to database and then for each user have setting > "timezone", which would tell the offset from UTC in seconds. Yeah, this way sounds reasonable to me. You may also want to have a look at pytz: http://pytz.sourceforge.net/ Cheers! -- Antonio --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
