Prepare accented characters for HTML

[Tony van der Hoff]

On 28/03/2019 10:19, Antoon Pardon wrote:
> On 28/03/19 10:38, Tony van der Hoff wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a MariaDB database, which contains accented (mostly French)
>> characters. I need to display these on an HTML page. I'm using the Jinja
>> templating engine.
>>
>> So, for instance, é needs to be replaced by é and so on. I've had
>> some success using string.replace(), but it is difficult to cater for
>> every case.
> 
> How about this function (python3):
> 
> def char2html(l):
>     return '&#%d;' % ord(l)
> 

Thanks, that'll work, but it's a bit of a pain examining every character
in the long (unicode?) string, and replacing it if necessary.

Meanwhile, by trial-and-error, I've found this workaround (maybe there's
a better way):

>>>'année'.encode(encoding='ascii',errors='xmlcharrefreplace').decode('ascii')
'année'


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