Hello, i ran into this problem too, the solution was to specify the page coding from the very begining: " # -*- coding: latin-1 -*- " this is my first line in a .py file where i have/deal with special chars. it latin-1 does not work, try utf-8, although it should work Good Luck
Karen Tracey-2 wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 3:52 PM, zenWeasel <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I am new to Django development, and have not been able to find this in >> the documentation. >> >> In my templates, if I use any characters that are Unicode and not >> straight ASCII e.g. é or ˝, the template fails. Is this normal >> behavior? Is there an easy way to expand the templates to handle the >> Unicode set or convert them to entities? >> > > No, it's not normal behavior. Please read: > > http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/unicode/ > > If you still have problems after reading that, likely someone on this list > will be able to help work out what is wrong. However you will get much > better help if you are a bit more specific about what goes wrong than "the > template fails." > > Karen > > -- > 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?hl=en. > > > -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Unicode-ASCII-problems-tp27443539p27449101.html Sent from the django-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- 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?hl=en.

