Question regarding the encoding in planet

[Shervin Asgari]

Thank you for your answer Brian. I completely missed that :(
Yes you are right, we should and probably will use UTF-8 but we have to 
check to see if everything works first.

Shervin

Baz wrote:
> The answer to that question is in the documentation. From INSTALL:
> "Edit the config.ini file in this directory to taste, it's pretty
> well documented so you shouldn't have any problems here."
>
> From examples/basic/config.ini:
> # The following provide defaults for each template:
> [...]
> # encoding: output encoding for the file, Python 2.3+ users can use the
> #           special "xml" value to output ASCII with XML character references
> # locale: locale to use for (e.g.) strings in dates, default is taken from your
> #         system
>
> ...which suggests that
> encoding = iso-8859-15
> might well work. Although to be honest I still think you'd be better
> converting your imported bits into utf-8.
>
> -Baz
>
> On 4/5/06, Shervin Asgari <shervin at linpro.no> wrote:
>   
>> Alright I will try to explain in greater detail.
>> We fixed the current problem in Apache, and are now able to view the
>> planet with norwegian characters. The only difference between ISO_8859-1
>> and 15 is the EURO sign :)  but yes I mean the 15.
>> My question is this, Is there a way to set the charset through a
>> configuration setting in planetplanet? Because the problem is that we
>> are going to import menus and stuff from other sites which have a
>> different charset, and it would be easier for us to convert this to
>> ISO_8859-15 through a variable.
>>
>> Shervin
>>
>> Baz wrote:
>>     
>>> (aaagh sent this offlist again)
>>>
>>> I think you mean ISO-8859-15 these days:
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8859-15
>>> ... since otherwise you can't display the Euro symbol.
>>>
>>> However: what exactly are the problems you're seeing with UTF-8? Are
>>> you sure the problem isn't that the pages are encoded in UTF-8, but
>>> that the webserver is presenting them as being encoded in some other
>>> charset? Take a read of this:
>>> http://www.intertwingly.net/blog/2004/09/23/Copy-and-Paste
>>>
>>> If your planet and its feeds are available in public it would help to
>>> post urls so that we can diagnose if your problem lies in the way your
>>> planet is served up, planet itself, or is a problem with the feeds.
>>>
>>> On 4/5/06, Shervin Asgari <shervin at linpro.no> wrote:
>>>
>>>       
>>>> Hello. We have now decided to use planet in our blog system, but the
>>>> problem is that UTF-8 has problems with the norwegian language. Is there
>>>> a way to use ISO-8859-1 instead of UTF-8?
>>>> I cannot see a "easy" way of doing this.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Kind Regards
>>>>
>>>> Shervin Asgari
>>>> System Consultant
>>>>
>>>> Linpro AS
>>>> Leading on Linux
>>>>
>>>>
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