[Python-Dev] IDLE and non-ASCII characters (original) (raw)

Martin von Loewis loewis@informatik.hu-berlin.de
Fri, 11 May 2001 22:53:55 +0200 (MEST)

Thanks to a bug report I got, I noticed for the first time that you cannot enter non-ASCII characters in IDLE anymore. Eg. at the shell prompt, you may get

s=3D'=E4=F6' UnicodeError: ASCII encoding error: ordinal not in range(128)

Likewise, when trying to save a file that has non-ASCII characters, you get a traceback.

Now, I think I understand all the causes of the problem (Tkinter returning Unicode objects, and so on). However, I'm curious whether anybody has proposals on how to deal with it.

For saving text files, if Python had an encoding directive, things might be easier :-) For the shell prompt, I've no idea how to solve this best.

So any suggestions are welcome.

Regards, Martin