How to display Chinese in a list retrieved from database via python

Thu Dec 25 15:58:07 EST 2008

En Thu, 25 Dec 2008 07:27:03 -0200, zxo102 <zxo102 at gmail.com> escribió:

> On 12月25日, 下午3时35分, "Chris Rebert" <c... at rebertia.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 11:29 PM, zxo102 <zxo... at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >   I retrieve some info in Chinese from postgresql  and assign it to a
>> > variable 'info' defined in javascript of a html page:
>> >   var info = ['\xd6\xd0\xce\xc4','\xd6\xd0\xce\xc4','\xd6\xd0\xce
>> > \xc4']
>> >  But I want it to be
>> >   var info = ['中文','中文','中文']
>> >  since in html pages (via javascript), the items in chinese out of the
>> > former :['\xd6\xd0\xce\xc4','\xd6\xd0\xce\xc4','\xd6\xd0\xce\xc4'] can
>> > not be displayed correctly when it is inserted into a html page. If
>> > the list is  var info = ['中文','中文','中文'] , then everything works
>> > fine.
>>
>
> The html code is as follows
>
> <html><head> <title> test </title></head><body>
> <script language=javascript>
>  var row01 = (1, '\xd6\xd0\xce\xc4', '1334995555555')
>  var row02 = (2, '\xd6\xd0\xce\xc4', '3434343434343')
> </script>
>  </body></html>
>
> But the '中文' is '\xd6\xd0\xce\xc4'. When row01 and row02 is called
> from somewhere,
> '\xd6\xd0\xce\xc4' can not be displayed correctly as '中文' in html
> environment.

You forgot to specify the page encoding, gb2312 presumably. If adding the  
encoding does not help, I'd say the problem must reside on how you later  
use row01 and row02 (your html page does not those variables for  
anything). '中文' is the same as '\xd6\xd0\xce\xc4', and both javascript  
and Python share the same representation for strings (mostly) so this  
should not be an issue.

My PC is unable to display those characters, but I get "true" from this:

<html><head><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html;  
charset='gb2312'"><title> test </title></head>
<body><script  
language=javascript>alert('中文'=='\xd6\xd0\xce\xc4')</script></body></html>

-- 
Gabriel Genellina