Re: [Gramps-devel] status GTK3 conversion - time reintegration branch

[John R. <jr...@ce...>]

On Jul 27, 2012, at 6:58 AM, Benny Malengier <ben...@gm...> wrote:

> Ok, I used the reload(sys) hack for now:
> http://gramps.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/gramps/trunk/src/gramps.py?r1=20057&r2=20103
> 
> John, you say this is ugly, but are there disadvantages somewhere? 
> It is really annoying that with GTK3 we everywhere have conversions errors. I read that pango/cairo change the encoding in GTK2, so doing the hack gives us behaviour of before. 
> 
> We cannot set a usersite module on installation of gramps as far as I can see.

Benny,

I don't think that I commented on this at all. If it works it's OK, I guess, (remember, I'm a mostly C/C++ programmer without any deep Python knowledge) but a quick search turns up several discussion threads where it's derided as a bad idea.

Does setting $PYTHONIOENCODING=utf8 fix the conversion errors? If so, we can set it in the initial shell script along with $GRAMPSHOME and avoid the hack.

Regards,
John Ralls