[Doc-SIG] Re: German Umlauts
David Goodger
goodger at python.org
Tue Jul 15 22:20:54 EDT 2003
Apologies for not replying sooner; email trouble.
I see that you've found a solution to the main problem.
That's good, because I don't know anything about Zope or ZWiki.
I'll answer specifics that I do know about.
Christian Tismer wrote:
> I've started using reStructuredText for my Wiki pages,
> and I like RST quite much.
Great to hear!
> The simple HTML way of ü doesn't work (why?).
Because reStructuredText isn't HTML and doesn't understand XML-style
character entities. There is a workaround if you really need them;
see <http://docutils.sf.net/FAQ.html>, question 2.7.
> What would be the most flexible default
> encoding for a multilingual website?
UTF-8, definitely. I don't know about input issues though (edit boxes
on web pages).
> Without doing that, by using a single non-ASCII character,
> a reStructuredText ZWiki page barfs with an ugly traceback,
> which finally just says "UnicodeError".
>
> I think it would be worth adding a better message which tells
> the administrator that he should enable unicode handling by
> providing some default encoding.
The latest Docutils code handles errors better. I don't know if that
helps with ZWiki though; it probably uses an older snapshot of
Docutils code.
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