[pygtk] Problem in fetching Unicode from URL and displaying it in PyGTK widget

[John Finlay]

Bertrand Kintanar wrote:
> On 7/17/09 6:39 PM, John Finlay wrote:
>   
>> Bertrand Kintanar wrote:
>>     
>>> On 7/17/09 1:12 PM, John Finlay wrote:
>>>       
>>>> Maybe you could gzip it and base64 encode it before stuffing it into 
>>>> the DB?
>>>>
>>>> John
>>>>         
>>> is gzipping it necessary for this to work?
>>>
>>>       
>> No but it'll make it a lot smaller than just base64 alone.
>>
>> John
>>     
> I'm really not concerned with database size here. What I'm really 
> concerned, which I'm having trouble implementing is how to convert the 
> unicode to display the right character text rather than the coded form.
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>   
I misunderstood what you wanted. I thought you just wanted to save the 
html file contents into the DB and were having a problem with the text 
encoding between the html and the DB but it sounds like you want to do 
something different.

John