Check the meta tag - if it's UTF-8, that's most likely the issue. You can
try ISO-8859-1 and see if that works for you.
On Tuesday, March 27, 2012 10:41:53 AM UTC-7, Derek wrote:
>
> What's the character set in your browser?
>
> On Tuesday, March 27, 2012 9:13:14 AM UTC-7, miguel wrote:
>>
>> This is not strictly a web2py issue. Though it is a problem that apps
>> dealing with some character sets must deal with.
>> I confess that the source of my problem is that I have been delaying
>> reading-up on encoding and decoding far too long. But I'm pressed for time
>> and I'm sure that this is a simple issue to many of you.
>>
>> Here's is it (slightly embarrassed):
>>
>> It works if I hardcode a string in a script helper:
>>
>> SCRIPT(" ... jQuery.prettyPhoto.open(images=%(images)s,titles=['olá',
>> 'olé']);})" % dict(...images=images), _language='javascript')
>>
>> It also works if (getting titles from the db, where it is stored as
>> "'olá','olé'" - note single quotes included):
>>
>> SCRIPT(" ...
>> jQuery.prettyPhoto.open(images=%(images)s,titles=[%(titles)]);})" %
>> dict(images=images, titles=titles), _language='javascript')
>>
>> However, if I try to parse from the db (where titles is stored as
>> "olá|olé", such as:
>> titles = [title.strip() for title in titles.split('|')]
>>
>> The jQuery string is adequately adjusted to receive a list:
>> SCRIPT(" ... jQuery.prettyPhoto.open(images=%(images)s,titles=%(titles));})"
>> % dict(images=images, titles=titles), _language='javascript')
>>
>> All works but when rendered by the browser I do not get: Olá instead I
>> get: olá
>> The same for Olé and olé
>>
>> My goal is to have a user supplied string, such as: olá|olé
>>
>> BTW this is a prettyPhoto widget I developed for plugin_wiki, which is
>> awesome :-)
>>
>> Txs for the help,
>> Miguel
>>
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