Re: [Gramps-devel] funny byte-string typeout in Python3

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

On Mar 1, 2013, at 5:08 PM, Paul Franklin <pf....@gm...> wrote:

> On 3/1/13, Paul Franklin <pf....@gm...> wrote:
>> As I don't understand Python "encoding" I don't feel qualified
>> to search out every such instance in gramps and edit it somehow.
> 
> On the other hand, are you telling me that all I have to do
> is to delete every instance of
> 
> .encode(sys.stdout.encoding, 'backslashreplace')
> 
> that I can find anywhere in gramps40/trunk?
> 
> If so, that's easy and I'm happy to volunteer!
> 
> It is just that as an English speaker, with no "locale"
> installed, I've always been reluctant to do anything having
> to do with translation or different character sets -- since
> I have no way to test the result.

If you can't test it, don't touch it. 

OTOH, it's not that hard to set up a locale and start Gramps with
  LANG=fo_BA.UTF-8 python3 Gramps.py -l  *
and see if it's printing a byte literal instead of a string, or to run the GUI and see if you can find any English strings or goofy characters anywhere. Might be a bit challenging to navigate in Chinese, but any latin-alphabet language is pretty guessable.

Regards,
John Ralls

*fo_BA is the foo language as used in Barland. ;-)