I would like to use utf-8 (latin-1) content in page templates like this <p>Hier hätte ich gerne Umlaute etc.: Österreich, daß...</p>
("here I would like to have umlauts etc.") I. e. I would like to have default strings with German umlauts. - I was surprised this was not possible in the first place 'ascii' codec can't decode byte ... in position ...: ordinal not in range(128) I tried several workarounds - none of them I liked very much: * Using i18n I could successfully write <p i18n:translate="">hier-haette-ich</p> and define the German message strings in a .po file. - Actually this is starting with an English (ascii-only) default string ("hier-haette-ich") and than defining a German translation. - I wonder why it should not be possible the other way around (start with German default strings and later define the English translations). - Imagine a small German only site: Every string with umlauts has to go to the .po file: Quite some overhead. * The p tag was successfully rendered when I used <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> in the first line of the template (respectively encoding="iso-8859-1"). I don't like this approach for several reasons: The main reason is that IE will then interpret the page in quirks mode (instead of standards mode) - see e. g. Jeffry Zeldmans book "designing with web standards". * I came up with a solution which obviously is not very elegant: <p tal:content="python: u'Hier hätte ich gerne ...'" /> but it works for me if the string is in latin-1 What I would really like is the possibility of specifying the encoding when registering the page: <browser:page name="mypage.html" template="mypage.pt" encoding="utf-8" ... /> I have not tried yet to render the page from a view class (how would I do that?) Am I missing something? Thanks in advance, Andreas _______________________________________________ Zope3-users mailing list Zope3-users@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope3-users