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

[Andy T. <an...@ha...>]

Christoph Zwerschke wrote:
> 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
> 
> 

Done. Thanks for spotting this.

Regards,
Andy
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