Make the form input tags look like this: <input name="mystring:utf-8:ustring" /> then you'll be certain to get it into Zope as unicode under utf-8.
2008/6/26 Garry Saddington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I am using Zope 2.9 connected to a Posgres DB via psycopg. My database > encoding is UTF8. > > I am getting the following error when users try to insert text in the > database containing £ signs: > > ERROR: invalid byte sequence for encoding "UTF8": 0xa3 > > This is due to the encoding of a £ sign in the text being sent to the DB. > > My question then is how do I make sure that all encodings submiitted from > forms are in the correct UTF8 format? > > Regards > > Garry > > _______________________________________________ > Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org > http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope > ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** > (Related lists - > http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce > http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ) > > -- Peter Bengtsson, work www.fry-it.com home www.peterbe.com hobby www.issuetrackerproduct.com _______________________________________________ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )