I had a problem a bit like this once. One way to solve it might be to put a meta tag like this into the head section of your template <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"/> although you do already have that inn your header, which should take precendence.
Another thing to try is the html language attribute <html lang="es">. If none of these work, you could try doing a find and replace on the document for special language characters, and replacing them with their (x)html escapes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_XML_and_HTML_character_entity_references Hope this helps, Colin On Nov 20, 1:00 pm, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I wrote a simple script to scrap news from yahoo and display them in > my site. > The problem is that the news are in spanish, and the text I get > doesn't show properly the spanish accents. > I guess it has something to do with encoding formats but I'm > completely ignorant of this matter. > In webpy docs I found the utf8 function, but it doesn't seem to > work... > > I'd like to know if this problem is webpy related or not. This is the > code (webpy 0.3): > > class news(app.page): > def GET(self): > web.header('Content-Type', 'text/html; charset=UTF-8') > from google.appengine.api import urlfetch > from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup > from google.appengine.api import mail > > page = urlfetch.fetch("http://ar.news.yahoo.com";, headers= > {'Content-Type': 'text/html; charset=UTF-8'}) > soup = BeautifulSoup(page.content) > s=[] > block = soup('ul',{"class":"headlines"}) > for i in block: > s.append(str(i)) > res = ''.join(s) > #res = utils.utf8(res) > res = res.replace('"/', '"http://ar.news.yahoo.com/') > return utils.utf8(res) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web.py" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/webpy?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
