Re: [Gramps-users] accent probleme

[James G. S. (jim) <jg...@sa...>]

Jérôme wrote:
> Hi Richard,
> 
>> I've got accent probleme in french
> 
> What version of gramps ?
> 2.2.10, 2.90-bêta
> 
> What kind of problem ?
> You cannot read your exported Gedcom with your text editor ?
> People under windows want you to use ANSI encoding ?
> 
> UTF8 should be the best choice for sharing data but for windows users 
> you can use the strange ANSEL on export dialog (encoding choice list)
> 
> 
> 
> Also, why gramps try to encode GEDCOM info with iso iso8859-1 on trunk ?
> Jim ? (line 258 _GedcomInfo.py)
> 
> 
> class GedcomInfoDB:
>      def __init__(self):
>          self.map = {}
> 
>          self.standard = GedcomDescription("GEDCOM 5.5 standard")
>          self.standard.set_dest("GEDCOM 5.5")
> 
>          try:
>              filepath = os.path.join(const.DATA_DIR,"gedcom.xml")
>              f = open(filepath.encode('iso8859-1'),"r")
> 

Jérôme -

I'm not familiar with the workflow that executes this code. It looks
like it is opening a file (named "gedcom.xml") to read, and will decode
the data expected to be in 8859-1 encoding.

Ahh, I see that it is opening a Gramps distribution file
"...src/data/gedcom.xml", which carries a header claiming encoding as
8859-1 (latin-1), but it appears there is (currently) nothing but pure
ASCII in that file.

This code (whatever it's purpose ;-) ) does not appear to be a likely
cause of encoding problems.

Regards,
..jim