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Joel
Joel

Reputation: 6107

Django and MySQL utf8 encoding issue

I have a database that uses a UTF-8 charset encoding. When I use the shell prompt to run mysql and select rows from tables, I can see the characters just fine (Frédéric Bélier). However, when running my django project and viewing a page in browser the field shows up as Frédéric Bélier. The HTML page as a charset meta tag of UTF-8.

When opening my views file (and template file) in Gedit I see that the charset is set to UTF-8 as well. However, when I run file -i views.py the output is views.py: text/x-java; charset=us-ascii / ASCII Java program text, with CRLF line terminators.

Any advices on what can be wrong and how it can be fixed?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 810

Answers (1)

Sonia
Sonia

Reputation: 1044

I am not a Django expert but perhaps it has something to do with a

  1. HTTP Header or Document Header

  2. A Django configuration. In Python a string is not necessarily unicode (unlike .NET for example)

My gut tells me that 2 in the probable situation.

Upvotes: 1

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