db wrote: > 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 (Gösing 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. 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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