[Pythoncard-users] Re: PythonCard and Unicode

[Kevin A. <al...@se...>]

On Nov 2, 2004, at 2:57 PM, Pat Smith wrote:

> Hi
> I'm starting work on an application and I'd like to use PythonCard,
> but I was wondering whether or not it currently supports unicode,
> because in my tests, it does not.
> I have wxPython's unicode build installed in windows, and unicode is
> displayed properly in the wxPython Demo.  However, when I attempt to
> build a resource file with unicode, it complains about ascii
> conversion.
>
> Any help you could offer would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks.
> Patrick Smith

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Right now, there is specific code in resourceOutput.py that is  
converting Unicode text to ascii. If those lines are commented out, I  
think you'll be able to save Unicode strings to the resource file, but  
what I don't know is whether some of those values saved will cause  
PythonCard to gag when the resource files are loaded; probably not, but  
I have no test cases to check. What you might try first, is manually  
changing the 'text' or 'label' or other attributes where you want to  
use Unicode strings and see if those load okay.

There are at least two issues that need to be figured out with regards  
to Unicode and PythonCard. One, is what attributes should support  
Unicode strings. More importantly, if you have a resource file with  
Unicode strings or use Unicode strings in your source and try and run  
it on a non-Unicode build of wxPython, should PythonCard attempt to do  
any conversions to ascii or just let an exception be thrown? This is  
potentially a messy issue, but due to some limitations and bugs in the  
wxPython builds, especially on Win9x, it isn't possible for us to just  
require everyone to always run a wxPython Unicode build.

What would be helpful, is to get some examples of real PythonCard  
programs using Unicode in source and resource and then I would have  
something to experiment with using both types of wxPython builds. All  
files should be zipped and sent to me directly.

ka