On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 09:13:33AM -0700, Michael Gimbel wrote:
> I'm encountering MakoRenderingException and UnicodeDecodeError
> exceptions throughout my application when trying to render utf8 data
> which was originally user input.
>
> There don't seem to be Pyramid configuration options for Mako's
> output_encoding='utf-8', encoding_errors='replace'.
>
> Python/Mako magic doesn't seem to be doing it either, ## -*- coding:
> utf-8 -*-
>
> I've tried using a mako filter, which helped: mako.default_filters =
> decode.utf8 (in .ini file)
> But I still have problems anywhere I'm using filters or functions in
> my templates: ${var_with_utf8_chars | custom_filter}
> This seems to fix it but I don't want to have to do this throughout
> the entire application: ${var_with_utf8_chars.decode('utf8') }
> custom_filter}
>
> I was thinking if the above is the only way, the best place to do it
> would be at the model level when the utf8 data is loaded out of the
> database. But I was hoping for a better, more magical solution.Decoding UTF-8 data into Unicode objects at the model level _is_ the better solution. E.g. SQLAlchemy can do that seamlessly. Marius Gedminas -- Never trust a smiling Gates.
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