[silva-dev] unicode error in custom content type

[Andrew Altepeter]

On Tue, 2003-09-02 at 09:35, Jan-Wijbrand Kolman wrote:
> Andrew,
> 
> 
> Just to be sure: what Silva version are you using?

I'm using v 0.9.2


> 
> 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?