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Christoph Haas

More options 1 July 2007, 16:05

From: Christoph Haas <em...@christoph-haas.de>

Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2007 17:05:13 +0200

Local: Sun 1 July 2007 16:05

Subject: Re: How do I set my form to be a unicode string?

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On Sun, Jul 01, 2007 at 11:27:38AM -0300, Walter Cruz wrote:
> Well, I asked before search the in the list archives!

Sorry, no. If you like to continue the topic you brought up with another
thread then please use the other thread. I didn't follow the other
thread. If you start a new thread then I recommend you put all necessary
information into it.

> What I needed:

> tmpl_options['mako.input_encoding'] = 'UTF-8'
> tmpl_options['mako.output_encoding'] = 'UTF-8'
> tmpl_options['mako.default_filters'] = ['decode.utf8']
> request_settings = dict(charset='utf-8', errors='replace')
> return pylons.config.Config(tmpl_options, map,
> paths,request_settings=request_settings)

You shouldn't need the mako.default_filters setting. IMHO it slows done
things unnecessarily. The request_settings parameter does the work
already.

> In environment.py

> I changed my formencode validator to: UnicodeString and now it's ok.

Very good.

> But I'm with a doubt:

> Even with this, in my templates I've to use:

> ${h.link_to(u"Nova citação", h.url(action="new"))}

> (Note the u before "Nova citação").

> How can I configure this to avoid to say that this is string is unicode?

You can't. A string contains 7-bit character in Python. So if you use
anything besides 7-bit ASCII you need to use unicode objects. Generally
(not only with Pylons) it's wise to always use Unicode internally and
just convert them on input/output. Trust me - it will save you time and
hassle.

Kindly
Christoph

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