Can anyone please help with what looks like it should be a small
unicode problem?
I've got an upload field. I enter the filename in an input form and
submit. My controller's accept manually stores the uploaded file using
db.mytable.myfield.store. I then read the file contents, process them,
and write them to a file under static using the same db....store
method.
Later, I open and read the processed file and write the contents to a
DIV. Now I get garbled characters instead of Spanish characters, for
instance.
It seems like I've got to do some encoding/decoding somewhere in the
flow, but where exactly is turning out to be a mystery. I've put
a .decode('utf-8') on the line reader from the uploads/file, but that
seems to aggravate the situation with more garbage characters.
I was thinking web2py would do all the unicode stuff behind the scenes
for me, but it looks like it hasn't. I hope I'm wrong.
