Re: Encoding ISO-8859-1

Karen I did as you said and it is amazing what know-how can do.
I am yours forever.
Ulferik

On 16 Nov, 16:20, Karen Tracey <kmtra...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 10:08 AM, ulferik <ulfe...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Thank's Karen for your reply.
> > With php+smarty I do the same I make a base template on which I have
> > some
> > stuff that is the same for all. In the template I place a meta tag
> > with charset=ISO-8859-1
> > and everything is fine.
>
> The meta tag, I'd guess, will affect how the browser interprets the data.
>
> > With Django it doesn't make any difference
> > what I place in meta or
> > xml tags. The template is processed and it is UTF-8 whether I like it
> > or not.
> > This not a matter of database or views or models it is a base
> > template.
> > I have read the manual regarding charset and I can't make any sence
> > from it. What I need
> > is an example that shows how to...
>
> FILE_CHARSET is a setting, so you need to put it in your settings.py file,
> not in any template file. Include:
>
> FILE_CHARSET = 'iso-8859-1'
>
> in your settings.py file (and, if necessary, restart your server).  Then
> Django will stop assuming that your template files are encoded in utf-8 and
> instead will read them assuming iso-8859-1 encoding.
>
> Note if you also want to retrain this encoding, instead of utf-8, for all
> responses sent by your application, you will need to also set
> DEFAULT_CHARSET:
>
> http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/settings/#default-charset
>
> By default Django will encode outgoing responses in utf-8, so if you want to
> send your responses with another encoding you need to change this one also.
> But I am not sure why you would want to do that instead of just sending the
> response using utf-8?
>
> Karen

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