Comments on: Using non-ascii in Django templates http://djangodays.com/2008/11/10/using-non-ascii-in-django-templates/ A growing collection of all things Django Sun, 18 Apr 2010 06:31:10 +0200 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Malcolm Tredinnick http://djangodays.com/2008/11/10/using-non-ascii-in-django-templates/comment-page-1/#comment-349 Malcolm Tredinnick Fri, 28 Nov 2008 04:16:23 +0000 http://djangodays.com/?p=82#comment-349 Assuming you're using Django 1.0 or later (well, anything since the unicode merge landed in Django, which was just after 0.96), you can use non-ASCII characters in templates. It would be a bit short-sighted if we supported non-ASCII everywhere except in templates! You must be doing something a bit unusual here. The most likely thing I can think of is your files aren't saved as UTF-8. Django assumes the template files are in UTF-8 (it has to assume something, since auto-character set detection is unreliable in many cases) and if you have saved the files in some other encoding, you'll need to set the FILE_CHARSET setting appropriately. Have a look at the ref/unicode.txt documentation file for information. I just rechecked this with the exact example you're using and it loads from a template file and renders without problems. Assuming you’re using Django 1.0 or later (well, anything since the unicode merge landed in Django, which was just after 0.96), you can use non-ASCII characters in templates. It would be a bit short-sighted if we supported non-ASCII everywhere except in templates!

You must be doing something a bit unusual here. The most likely thing I can think of is your files aren’t saved as UTF-8. Django assumes the template files are in UTF-8 (it has to assume something, since auto-character set detection is unreliable in many cases) and if you have saved the files in some other encoding, you’ll need to set the FILE_CHARSET setting appropriately. Have a look at the ref/unicode.txt documentation file for information.

I just rechecked this with the exact example you’re using and it loads from a template file and renders without problems.

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