[Pythoncard-users] PythonCard dialogs can only use 7-bit Ascii?

[Christoph Z. <ci...@on...>]

I'm just making my first steps with PythonCard and I think I like it.

However, I found that most string attributes are converted to 7-bit 
ascii by the resource editor. This makes it impossible to use text 
attributes with international characters like German Umlaute - they are 
simply swallowed.

The culprit is the following code in resourceOutput.py:

     if isinstance(value, unicode):
         value = value.encode('ascii', 'ignore')

After removing it, everything seems to work fine (no matter whether I 
have Unicode enabled wxpython installed or not). So is there any real 
reason that this conversion takes place? Maybe only historical reasons?

-- Christoph