Re: [Boa Constr] boa & unicode : sitecustomize.py not read

[Werner F. B. <wer...@fr...>]

Denis,

spir wrote:
> Thank you for your help, Werner.
> I work on windows with last versions installed I guess :
> * win XP SP3
> * python 2.5.2
> * wxPython 2.8.81
> * boa 0.6.1
>
> Actually, you're right, I use the exe version of boa, which explains 
> why sitecustomize.py does not work. I should have noted that myself...
> Still, the strange thing is : I just installed ACtiveState's 
> ActivePython instead of the standard Cpython. And *now*, boa works 
> perfectly with unicode, both when opening and running a file. wxPython 
> modules such as the file dialog, too (before I had warnings at each 
> directory change, even if there are only plain ascii file and 
> directory names).
No idea, I thought that ActivePython is just a "packaged" up Cpython 
with some other modules, but as they are always lagging a bit behind I 
prefer to get the packages/modules I need and to upgrade them when it 
fits into my plans.
>
> I would really enjoy understanding. Does it mean that ActivePython is 
> internally built using unicode ? And written in order to be able to 
> parse unicode source files ? If it uses utf-8, then ascii users would 
> not even notice it (characters < 128 still coded on a single byte).
> Anyway, this fact shows that I still don't get fully the way python 
> copes with non-ascii stuff. I don't mean non-ascii data, or the 
> unicode type of strings, but the encoding of the source code itself.
You might want to search with Google there are lots of 
references/posts/wiki pages out there.  It is still a mystery to me, 
also I think I have my application converted over to Unicode, actually 
utf-8, but still testing.
>
> greetings, denis
>
> PS : Do you know about a programming language in which variable and 
> object _names_ can be non-ascii ? I think in the XXIth century this 
> should be possible ;-)
You probably could today with Python, also it might be a lot easier with 
Python 3x as I believe it will be handling Unicode "natively", i.e. it 
will be the default and no longer ascii.

I am a native German speaker but all the code in my app uses English for 
all objects etc etc, and I then use gettext to translate all the user 
visible stuff into German and French.

Werner