Help needed with python unicode cgi-bin script

Mon Dec 10 17:53:57 EST 2007

Thanks for the reply, Jack. I tried setting mode to binary but it had no
affect.

"Jack" <nospam at invalid.com> wrote in message 
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> You probably need to set stdout mode to binary. They are not by default on 
> Windows.
>
>
> "weheh" <weheh at verizon.net> wrote in message 
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>> Dear web gods:
>>
>> After much, much, much struggle with unicode, many an hour reading all 
>> the examples online, coding them, testing them, ripping them apart and 
>> putting them back together, I am humbled. Therefore, I humble myself 
>> before you to seek guidance on a simple python unicode cgi-bin scripting 
>> problem.
>>
>> My problem is more complex than this, but how about I boil down one 
>> sticking point for starters. I have a file with a Spanish word in it, 
>> "años", which I wish to read with:
>>
>>
>> #!C:/Program Files/Python23/python.exe
>>
>> STARTHTML= u'''Content-Type: text/html
>>
>> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" 
>> "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
>> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" xml:lang="en">
>> <head>
>> </head>
>> <body>
>> '''
>> ENDHTML = u'''
>> </body>
>> </html>
>> '''
>> print STARTHTML
>> print open('c:/test/spanish.txt','r').read()
>> print ENDHTML
>>
>>
>> Instead of seeing "año" I see "a?o". BAD BAD BAD
>> Yet, if I open the file with the browser (IE/Mozilla), I see "año." THIS 
>> IS WHAT I WANT
>>
>> WHAT GIVES?
>>
>> Next, I'll get into codecs and stuff, but how about starting with this?
>>
>> The general question is, does anybody have a complete working example of 
>> a cgi-bin script that does the above properly that they'd be willing to 
>> share? I've tried various examples online but haven't been able to get 
>> any to work. I end up seeing hex code for the non-ascii characters 
>> u'a\xf1o', and later on 'a\xc3\xb1o', which are also BAD BAD BAD.
>>
>> Thanks -- your humble supplicant.
>>
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