From tswast at gmail.com  Sun May 10 04:24:44 2009
From: tswast at gmail.com (Tim Swast)
Date: Sat, 9 May 2009 21:24:44 -0500
Subject: [Pydotorg-www] Unicode Titles and Links
Message-ID: <3d09c9170905091924h50741f35vb636b9c6feda1890@mail.gmail.com>

Hello,

I have been using a slightly modified version of the build system from
the beta.python.org subversion repository for one of my personal
sites. In my efforts, I noticed that the Unicode support isn't too
great... I tried to have a an accent or two in the title and
navigation bar, and I was greeted some not too friendly
UnicodeDecodeErrors.

I've attached a patch that addresses this issue. I tested building
beta.python.org with my patch applied, and it seemed to work fine. In
looking at the mailing list archives, I know that at least python.it
is also using this build code, so perhaps this will be of use to
others as well.

I would've liked to have went a different route (i.e. using the
codecs.open() function), but either the python email module is
terrible in the way it handles Unicode or there are some documents
that are not utf-8 encoded...

Hope this helps someone,

--
Tim Swast
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