Help needed with python unicode cgi-bin script

Mon Dec 10 02:36:04 EST 2007

You probably need to set stdout mode to binary. They are not by default on 
Windows.

"weheh" <weheh at verizon.net> wrote in message 
news:DV57j.11710$OR.11141 at trnddc01...
> 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.
> 