[mod_python] StringField encoding?

Problem solved. I still don't understand exactly how but it's saving my kanjis. 
Move on before it breaks.. :)

Nick wrote:
> That's why I avoid dealing with unicode altogether :)
> 
> Sorry that's not much help.
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> Nick
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> dharana wrote:
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>> But if I understand it correctly (I doubt it anyway). How are you 
>> going to store an UTF-8 string into a str without loosing information? 
>> Let's say, a japanese kanji?
>>
>> If every string is converted to str (when assigning to StringField) 
>> instead of unicode it won't be possible to recover the original 
>> string. Please tell me I'm wrong.
>>
>> Nick wrote:
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>>> You could try explicity setting the media type in the content type to 
>>> be ISO-8859-1 (or whatever character set you want to use) instead of 
>>> unicode.
>>>
>>> Nick
>>>
>>> dharana wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> I have a form in one page. I send it with accented chars. Apache is 
>>>> configured to send content as UTF-8 and browser is Firefox so I 
>>>> presume Modpython gets utf-8 encoded data.
>>>>
>>>> StringField inherits from str so, in this case, what kind of 
>>>> encoding should I pressume it has? I'm having trouble trying to 
>>>> decode('utf-8') the StringField instance, that's why I ask.
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dharana