[silva-dev] unicode error in custom content type

[Jan-Wijbrand Kolman]

Andrew,


Just to be sure: what Silva version are you using?

regards
jw


Andrew Altepeter wrote:
> Hi All!
> 
> I have a custom content type that I don't think fully supports unicode.
> When I save data in the edit tab, I convert I do the following:
>    self._data[d] = request[d].encode('UTF8')
> 
> However, if that data has some non-ascii characters in it (a special
> apostrophe, in this case), when I go to the public view it see this
> error:
> 
> Error Type: UnicodeError
> Error Value: ASCII decoding error: ordinal not in range(128)
> 
> The code in the public view template which gives the error (I think) is
> this:
> 
>  <span tal:omit-tag="" tal:repeat="job newjobs">
>   <a tal:attributes="name job/id"></a>
>   <h4 tal:content="job/getPosition">Position Title</h4>
>   <p tal:content="job/getSalary">Salary</p>
>   <p align="justify" tal:content="job/getResponsibilities">Job
> Description</p>
>  </span>
> 
> Any ideas?

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Jan-Wijbrand Kolman
jw at infrae.com