... I mean, I tried all of this except escaping characters as you said above. I'd rather look for a simpler solution before trying this...
On 20 nov, 22:52, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks TheBoff, > > I tried all of this but unfortunately the problem persists. > Error message: > > File "C:\Python25\lib\encodings\utf_8.py", line 16, in decode > return codecs.utf_8_decode(input, errors, True) > UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode bytes in position 10-12: > invalid d > ata > > On 20 nov, 18:57, TheBoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Or, if the template is xhtml you could try this: > > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> > > > At the very top of the file. > > > On Nov 20, 9:54 pm, TheBoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > 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_re... > > > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
