[erlang-questions] character output problems

Sat Apr 7 17:20:23 CEST 2012

I found it. I thought if any web site might be able to handle unicode,
it would be erlang.org, so I went and grabbed some of the header text:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC '-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN'
    'http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd'>
<html xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<head>
<title>test</title>
  <meta http-equiv='Content-Type' content='text/html;charset=utf-8'/>
</head>

and it works correctly now.

thanks

On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 5:20 PM, Magnus Klaar <magnus.klaar@REDACTED> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> It looks like your input is being converted to a multibyte character
> encoding (such as utf-8, which we're most likely looking at in the second
> version) on its way from your brower, via the database and back to your
> browser. I must admit that i'm no expert and i did have to double check the
> terminology on wikipedia, but both the Ä and Å characters in the output has
> an extra character tucked on, coincidentally these two characters are
> encoded as 196 and 197 in latin1, both valid values for a "leading byte"
> which are expected to be followed by one "continuation byte".
>
> TLDR; Are you declaring the correct charset in your markup?
>
> MVH Magnus
>
> On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 10:42 PM, Wes James <comptekki@REDACTED> wrote:
>>
>> When putting some data in to riak or postgresql the data coming out
>> isn't right. For instance the text going in to the database is:
>>
>> Ekologie lučních porostů
>>
>> But when a search is done on the data (via cowboy), the results coming
>> out look like:
>>
>> Ekologie luÄ nÃch porostÅ¯
>>
>> When I was working with lists in the past (using yaws), it seemed to
>> work, but the results coming out are binaries and I think the binary
>> representation is causing the problem or converting from binary is
>> causing the problem.  Is there a way to fix this?
>>
>> When looking at the data in psql it looks right.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> -wes
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