On Sep 4, 2011, at 3:25 PM, weheh wrote: > Grrr, grrr, and triple grrrrrrrrrrrrrr. This encoding stuff can be so > awfully painful (all the time, it seems). > > OK, Jonathan, I'm pretty sure you are right, it's an editor encoding > problem, not a web2py problem. > > I swear to you that I have vim and Eclipse set to utf-8 encoding. For > that matter, my browser is also set to utf-8 encoding. > > However, regardless of whether I'm entering the encoded character into > the controller source code, or using a text field to upload the ñ into > my app, it's coming out encoded differently, but consistently wrong. > > Do you know where in Eclipse I must set encodings to get it to stick > to utf-8? So far, I have found two places. One is File > Preferences > and the other is Edit > Set Encoding. Anywhere else?
Are you including the encoding comment in your Python files? # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- I'd also consider using od or some other hex dumper to verify what's actually in your files. I don't know anything about Eclipse.
