write html-headers (utf-8)

Mon May 30 07:17:10 EDT 2005

db wrote:

> Hello all,
> 
> I hope this is the correct newsgroup for this question.
> 
> Does anybody know how I can write a html-header with python(cgi)?
> The problem is, I have a few html templates in which I have a header e.g:
> 
> <!DOCTYPE  HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
> "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"> <html>
> <head>
> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
> 
> In this template I write a few Mysql variables.
> Those variable often have german characters. This characters (GÃ¶sing in
> stead of Gösing). The german characters in the html template are shown
> correctly.
> 
> If I change the character encoding with the browser to utf-8, all the
> characters are shown correctly. As you can see, I put in the header of the
> html template that the encoding is UTF-8, the browser still shows windows
> ISO-8859-15. Can I write the header with python so the browser uses the
> utf-8 encoding?
> 
> My hosting providor uses fedora core 2, Python 2.2.3, MySQLdb. Mysql
> 3.23.58
> 
> I googled for hours, but I can't find the answer. I hope ypu can help me.
Does your browser send a Content-Type HTTP header (don't confuse this with
the HTML <head> part)? If it does and it specifies a charset, this will
override your <meta http-equiv>. Often iso-8859-1 is the default charset
for the Content-Type header.

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