Re: [Pythoncard-users] Unicode [slightly OT]

[Kenneth P. <ken...@ce...>]

On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 09:41:18PM -0600, Kenneth Pronovici wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 03:10:23AM +0000, Alex Tweedly wrote:
> > If I start up the Python interpreter (i.e. open a DOS shell box, and=20
> > type "python") I get my Python interpreter. I then type in the followin=
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> > two lines, and get an error :
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> > >C:\Documents and Settings\Eleane>python
> > >Python 2.4.1 (#65, Mar 30 2005, 09:13:57) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)]=
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> > >on win32
> > >Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
> > >>>> s =3D u'a\u2019s'
> > >>>> print s
> > >Traceback (most recent call last):
> > >  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
> > >  File "C:\Python24\lib\encodings\cp850.py", line 18, in encode
> > >    return codecs.charmap_encode(input,errors,encoding_map)
> > >UnicodeEncodeError: 'charmap' codec can't encode character u'\u2019'=
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> > >in position
> > > 1: character maps to <undefined>
> > >>>>
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> > If instead I start the PythonCard codeEditor, and start a Shell (F5),=
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> > and type the same two lines, it works properly.
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> > I tried the basic python interpreter adding the imports that are visibl=
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> > within the codeEditor shell, but still get the same problem.
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> Unicode in Python drives me batty.  Every time I think I understand
> what's going on, something else strange happens, and I begin to doubt my
> comprehension.  So, it's not just you. :)
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> I get this same behavior on Linux (python 2.3.5).  On that platform,
> I suspect (but haven't had time to prove) that the problem is
> locale-related.  However, even if I figure it out there, I'm not sure
> how that solution would translate to other platforms like Windows.
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> I suggest writing python-devel with "unicode" in the subject somewhere.
> Posts with that subject often get quite excellent replies from Martin v.
> L=F6wis, who has in fact helped me out several times.

Ugh, I have Debian on the brain.  I meant <pyt...@py...>, not
python-devel.

KEN

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Kenneth J. Pronovici <pro...@ie...>
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