FTR, I just so happened to be doing some work on webob.org which is a simple HTML file only that was exhibiting this exact issue. The fix was to simply add this to the <head>:
<meta charset="utf-8"> --steve On Tuesday, July 4, 2017 at 2:24:49 PM UTC-7, Steve Piercy wrote: > > UTF-8 all the things. > > * Use a meta tag in the HTML to set a character set of UTF-8. > * Ensure your files are encoded with UTF-8. > * Avoid a byte order mark (BOM) in files as that may override > other settings. > * Ensure web servers serve text/html as UTF-8. A simple text > file containing only HTML boilerplate with "©" or the classic > "räksmörgås" should be sufficient to test. > * If you hit a database, ensure the connection uses UTF-8. > > There's may be a couple of other places to check, too, but you > get the idea. > > --steve > > > On 7/4/17 at 2:05 PM, [email protected] ('Mathieu > Dubois' via pylons-discuss) pronounced: > > >Dear all, > > > >I'm far from being an expert on that so pardon my ignorance. > > > >We have 2 servers (say prod and dev) running the same code (in > >some virtualenv). We recently upgraded to Ubuntu 16 (dev was > >updated from Ubuntu 14.04 and prod from Ubuntu 12.04 to Ubuntu > >14.04 and then to Ubuntu 16.04). We use the version of pyramid > >provided by Ubuntu but we installed. The virutalenv were > >recreated from scratch for Ubuntu 16.04 and the same version of > >pyramid_jinja2 was installed there. The code is run with pserve > >(started by circus) and we use Apache as a reverse proxy to > >redirect to the internet (AFAIU the configuration is the same). > > > >Our login page contains a '©'. This is served correctly from > >dev (the HTML code contains '©') but not from prod (the HTML > >code contains '©'). So somewhere there is something > >different but I have no idea where to look. it's not blocking > >but I would like to be sure that we don't miss something. Any > >advice ? > > > >Mathieu > > > > ------------------------ > Steve Piercy, Soquel, CA > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pylons-discuss" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pylons-discuss/ac97698e-0cb9-43b2-a76a-be5448407a00%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
