Phillip Pearson - Second p0st

tech notes and web hackery from the guy that brought you bzero, python community server, the blogging ecosystem, the new zealand coffee review and the internet topic exchange

2003-1-7

bzero 0.14 available

bzero now does unicode. It should now correctly read both UTF-8 and ISO-8859-1 text files, and convert everything to valid HTML (in { format) when upstreaming.

What this means is that on Windows you can use notepad to edit your blog posts, write something in the language of your choice, save as UTF-8 (not "Unicode" - that means something else in notepad), and have everything upstream and display properly. かっこいい!

Note that currently it only works for the contents of posts, not the titles or your blogroll. That will come in release 0.15. (Along with a way to edit posts without having to know Python syntax :)

Enjoy! (Download here: bzero)
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