Sorry, I am slow today. your "meta charset" tag in your layout - it's in
the header. If it's UTF-8, it's wrong.
On Tuesday, March 27, 2012 10:46:27 AM UTC-7, Derek wrote:
>
> 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
>>>
>>
