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Hello List,
I am fairly new to Erlang and Yaws, and by the way also new to this list,
and I have a problem that I can't seem to wrap my head around.
Unfortunately it's a lot of code and I don't know exactly where the error
happens, so I'll just try to describe it:
I am writing a complex file upload form using the recipe from Trapexit
(http://wiki.trapexit.org/index.php/How_to_setup_your_own_Web_server_with_Yaws),
and I have several other form fields of course (such as the name of the
file).
All my other code works perfectly with umlauts (German umlauts - |
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| tobbe |
| Posted: Wed Sep 27, 2006 7:47 am |
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Can it be a problem with what character set are you using ?
What charset are you using and what does the browser expect ?
In your HTML 'head' part you should specify the charset used, ex:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
Cheers, Tobbe
Jan-Ole Esleben wrote:
> Hello List,
>
> I am fairly new to Erlang and Yaws, and by the way also new to this list,
> and I have a problem that I can't seem to wrap my head around.
> Unfortunately it's a lot of code and I don't know exactly where the error
> happens, so I'll just try to describe it:
>
> I am writing a complex file upload form using the recipe from Trapexit
> (http://wiki.trapexit.org/index.php/How_to_setup_your_own_Web_server_with_Yaws),
> and I have several other form fields of course (such as the name of the
> file).
>
> All my other code works perfectly with umlauts (German umlauts - |
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| Posted: Wed Sep 27, 2006 12:09 pm |
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Your reply pointed me in the right direction to solving my problem, thanks
a lot.
However, the solution is rather spooky: All my HTTP headers say the pages
are encoded as latin-1. What I needed to do to get this one particular form
working, however, was add an accept-charset attribute with a value of
_UTF-8_!
Does anybody know why this is so? Are the data encoded -- internally -- as
UTF-8 in Erlang, and only converted to latin-1 by Yaws? (That would strike
me as odd, really.)
Confused, but thanks for the pointers,
Ole
On 27.09.06, Torbjorn Tornkvist wrote:
> Can it be a problem with what character set are you using ?
> What charset are you using and what does the browser expect ?
>
> In your HTML 'head' part you should specify the charset used, ex:
>
> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
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>
> Cheers, Tobbe
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> Jan-Ole Esleben wrote:
> > Hello List,
> >
> > I am fairly new to Erlang and Yaws, and by the way also new to this list,
> > and I have a problem that I can't seem to wrap my head around.
> > Unfortunately it's a lot of code and I don't know exactly where the error
> > happens, so I'll just try to describe it:
> >
> > I am writing a complex file upload form using the recipe from Trapexit
> > (http://wiki.trapexit.org/index.php/How_to_setup_your_own_Web_server_with_Yaws),
> > and I have several other form fields of course (such as the name of the
> > file).
> >
> > All my other code works perfectly with umlauts (German umlauts - |
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| tobbe |
| Posted: Wed Sep 27, 2006 1:37 pm |
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Jan-Ole Esleben wrote:
> Your reply pointed me in the right direction to solving my problem, thanks
> a lot.
>
> However, the solution is rather spooky: All my HTTP headers say the pages
> are encoded as latin-1. What I needed to do to get this one particular form
> working, however, was add an accept-charset attribute with a value of
> _UTF-8_!
>
> Does anybody know why this is so? Are the data encoded -- internally -- as
> UTF-8 in Erlang, and only converted to latin-1 by Yaws? (That would strike
> me as odd, really.)
No, nothing is encoded internally in any particular way.
What do you mean by saying that your pages are in latin-1 ?
What do you send as the 'charset' in your pages ?
On linux, run: iconv -l
to see names of well-known character sets.
If you specify iso-8859-1 as shown below then you should
get back iso-8859-1 characters from the browser.
However, if the browser belives the page is in UTF-8, then you will
get UTF-8 characters, and you may have to convert to iso-8859-1 if
that is the charset of the strings in your program (and vice versa).
There is a library named iconv in jungerl which can do that for you.
Cheers, Tobbe
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> Confused, but thanks for the pointers,
> Ole
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> On 27.09.06, Torbjorn Tornkvist wrote:
>> Can it be a problem with what character set are you using ?
>> What charset are you using and what does the browser expect ?
>>
>> In your HTML 'head' part you should specify the charset used, ex:
>>
>> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
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>>
>> Cheers, Tobbe
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>> Jan-Ole Esleben wrote:
>>> Hello List,
>>>
>>> I am fairly new to Erlang and Yaws, and by the way also new to this list,
>>> and I have a problem that I can't seem to wrap my head around.
>>> Unfortunately it's a lot of code and I don't know exactly where the error
>>> happens, so I'll just try to describe it:
>>>
>>> I am writing a complex file upload form using the recipe from Trapexit
>>> (http://wiki.trapexit.org/index.php/How_to_setup_your_own_Web_server_with_Yaws),
>>> and I have several other form fields of course (such as the name of the
>>> file).
>>>
>>> All my other code works perfectly with umlauts (German umlauts - |
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