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Somerville) Date: Mon Apr 26 15:01:17 2004 Subject: [I18n-sig] Some input Asian characters not displayed in a Python application in Windows 95 Message-ID: <20040426.145818.1620.1.MaryMargS@juno.com> Concerning the display of simplified Chinese characters in the edit control (GtkEntry widget) of a Unicode (UTF-8) Python application. I'm using Python 2.3.3, GTK+ 2.2.4-2 Runtime Environment, PyGTK 2.0.0 for Python 2.3.3. In an English (United States), Windows XP Home Edition all of the simplified Chinese characters I wanted to be displayed could be displayed; but in one pair of experiments in Windows 95, 18 +or-11 percent of the simplified characters were displayed as squares instead of Chinese characters in the Python application. I have been trying to get a Unicode Python application written by someone other than myself to accept and display simplified Chinese characters. I made some changes and got it to work in Windows XP Home Edition using Windows XP's Language Bar for inputting simplified Chinese characters directly into the Python application. In Windows 95 I used Microsoft's Global Input Method Editor (IME) 5.02 for simplified Chinese with simplified Chinese languge support installed along with Internet Explorer 5.5 service pack 2 (IE5.5SP2) and what is titled ?Outlook Express 5? (what I will call here OE5.5, since it is actually version 5.50.4807.1700 in its ?Help,? ?About Outlook Express?) to input simplified Chinese characters via pinyin into IE5.5SP2 and OE5.5. I obtained a TrueType SimSun font in one of the files simsun.ttf or simsun.ttc, downloaded via clicking on ?Installing Chinese Fonts? at http://www.langlab.jhu.edu/chineseFonts.html/. I copied the Chinese characters from each of those places to the computer clipboard and then attempted to paste them into the Unicode Python application. For what I mainly discuss here I used UTF-8 Unicode encodings throughout these processes. I also learned that in English Windows 95 matching the font in the source and Python application could be important. So in separate experiments I matched the MS-Song font in the IE5.5SP2, OE5.5, or BabelMap source (obtainable from http://uk.geocities.com/BabelStone1357/Software/BabelMap.html) and the Python application and later the SimSun font in the IE5.5SP2 or OE5.5 source and the Python application. But the result, at least in general, didn't seem to depend on the UTF-8 or GB2312 source encodings or the choices of MS Song or SimSun fonts in the source or the choice of MS Song, SimSun, or Arial font in the Python application. Choosing full- or half-width displays for the Chinese characters didn't make any difference either. Namely the typical result was that for the simplified Chinese characters corresponding to ?han4 zi4? (pinyin for ?Chinese character?), a square followed by the simplified Chinese character for ?zi4? was displayed. That is the character for ?han4? was not displayed; but the one for ?zi4?was displayed. On the other hand, in English Windows 95 typcially using UTF-8 encoding I could display both ?han4? and ?zi4? in 1) IE5.5SP2 using a variety of font choices, 2) OE5.5 with MS Song font, 3) the Unicode text editor SC UniPad (obtained from http://www.unipad.org/download/) using an unspecified font, 4) the Chinese input method editor Ding Dang Write using a Song font, and 5) BabelMap with the MS Song font. There is another curious thing: In OE5.5 with UTF-8 encoding I could input the simplified Chinese characters corresponding to the pinyin: Ni3 de Han4 zi4 hen3 hao3 kan4, ye3 bu4 cuo4. Ni3 zuo2 tian1 qu4 guo xue2 xiao4 ma? and have all of them were displayed correctly using the Song font. But having that text highlighted, when I switched to the SimSun font, the characters for ?han4,? ?cuo4,? and ?ma? were replaced by blanks while the rest of the characters remained displayed. The characters replaced by blanks in OE5.5 were the same ones replaced by squares in much earlier tests in the Python application with in the latter case font choices not 100-percent clear from my notes. Now here are the results of a controlled experiemnt: In Windows 95 with the UTF-8 encoding and the MS Song font I copied the simplified characters for ?han4 zi4? to the computer clipboard. I could then paste them and have them displayed in a blank document of the Unicode text editor SC UniPad, but once again with ?han4? displayed as a square and ?zi4? displayed correctly in the Python application with the UTF-8 encoding and MS-Song font settings. My conclusion from this experiment was that there is a problem somewhere in the combination of the Python application with GTK+ and PyGTK within a Windows-95 operating system. The hexadecimal codepoints for these two characters are as follows: Hexadecimal codepoints in the encodings Pinyin for the character Unicode (UTF-16) GB2312 han4 6C49 BABA zi4 5B57 D7D6 Both of these Unicode codepoints and in fact the codepoints for all of the 17 characters I have discussed in this e-mail letter lie in the Basic Multilingual Plane 0 of Unicode. So this is not a problem of Windows 95 not being able to display supplementary-plane characters from the Unicode supplementary plane 2. And, unless I have missed some place important beyond labeling or messaging in the Python application's code of which I am unaware, in some experiments I have seen the effect of han4 missing when I have not not changed the font in the transferring of the characters from IE5.5SP2 or OE5.5 to the Python application. (I had read that in some cases if one did change the font, Windows 95 could try ?looking? for the character encoding on the system code page, in my case Windows, code-page 1252; if that happened, the codepoint would not be found by Windows 95 and a square could be displayed instead of the Chinese character. But by matching the fonts in the source and the Python application, assuming I didn't miss any places important beyond labeling or messaging in the Python code, this should be ruled out.) What do you think is the explanation for the square displayed instead of the simplified character for ?han4?, yet a correct display for the simplified character ?zi4?? And how can I fix this? The fact that all of the problem characters lie in the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP), which Windows 95 is supposed to handle, plus the fact that a Web page, IE5.5SP2, SC UniPad, Ding Dang Write, and BabelMap all DO correctly display these characters in Windows 95 convinces me that both ?han4? and ?zi4? should be displayable in the Python application in Windows 95, once the Python, GTK+, PyGTK combination has the correct coding. I have some guesses: 1) I wondered if the Python application and perhaps OE5.5 5.50.4807.1700 could be using an older version of Unicode than IE5.5SP2, in which I didn't find any problems displaying the characters once things were properly set up. From the Internet I learned that IE5.5 uses part of Unicode version 3.0 and that at http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2002-July/026576.html on July 15, 2002 Marc Andre Lemburg wrote that the Unicode database in Python, apparently the version of it in use at that time, was created from Unicode 3.0. I coudn't find the version of Unicode used in OE5.5; it came as a part of the download of IE5.5SP2. And both ?han4? and ?zi4? entered Unicode in version 1.1 of it. So I haven't found any evidence to support my hypothesis that the problem I found in the Python application could be due to a version of Unicode in Python being older than in IE5.5SP2. 2) Perhaps the Unicode part of the Python application assumes that Unicode is handled internally by the Windows operating system, which would be consistent with good operation in Windows XP and problems in Windows 95. An important, Unicode-related statement in the Python application has: gettext.install(self.config.app_name, locales_dir, unicode=1) in it. Or perhaps the Unicode part of the Python application is not handled correctly in some other way for a Windows-95 operating system. What are the important points here? Or are there any sample codes that handle Unicode well in Python that uses GTK+ for an English, Windows-9x operating system to which you could refer me? If there is such a case, this could rule out a problem within GTK+. I have written the author of the Python application about the main challenge I face that I am discussing here. But so far I haven't received a response from him. One of the important changes in making the Python application work for me in Windows XP was changing the encoding for the file (file_enc) in which text data would be saved from file_enc = locale.getlocale()[1] to file_enc = ?utf_8? . [As I recall, in Windows XP using locale.getlocale()[1] and getpreferredencoding() worked well for giving me the encoding for the system code page of the operating system, in my case English (United States) or Windows code-page 1252; but neither of these functions gave me the encoding used at the moment I was inputting simplified Chinese characters using an input method; file_enc= ?mbcs?, standing for multibyte character set, didn't serve that purpose for me either to successfully input simplified Chinese into the Unicode (UTF-8), Python application. I assume that except for the fact that in Windows 95 the system code page is an American-National-Standards-Institute (ANSI) code page, these results would be the same in Windows 95 as well.] At least this worked well in Windows XP when inputting simplified Chinese text using the input method in Windows XP's Language Bar. For the Windows-95 computer I obtained the SimSun font from the Internet; the MS Song and MS Hei fonts were obtained as part of installing simplified Chinese language support as part of IE5.5SP2. All three of these fonts are Unicode, TrueType fonts from what I understand from my reading on the Internet. I have not tried adding the Microsoft Layer for Unicode to the Python application and don't know how for certain to install the critical unicoWS.dll file for use by the Python application or, if necessary, Python itself. But from what I have read on the Internet it appears that doing this may not increase the multilingual capabilities of Windows 95. Do you think using unicoWS.dll is important to solve the problem I face? There is one other problem that I have only been able to work around thus far. This is in a Python interpreter window for >>>locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL,'ar-ma') , where 'ar-ma' is a short expression for the ?Arabic (Morocco)? locale, a line containing something like cp1256 for code page 1256 and ?Saudi Arabia? was displayed on the computer screen, all of which I consider acceptable, as far as the Arabic language is concerned. But for >>>locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL,'zh-cn') I obtained ?unsupported locale setting? when I should have obtained something like ?Chinese P.R.C.)? for ?Chinese (People's Republic of China).? The line: >>>locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL,'chinese-s') should also have given something like ?Chinese (P.R.C.),? but instead gave something like Chinese and Taiwan and/or code page 950. Do you know any way to set the locale in Python for Chinese (P.R.C.), even, if necessary, somehow using the hexadecimal value of 0x0804 for what I think is for the Windows, Chinese (P.R.C.) locale? I have been working around this problem in a Python program via: locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL,'') #(typed as an apostrophe at left, not typed as a double quotation mark, as it appears on my computer screen) . . . file_enc = ?utf_8? while inputting and saving simplified Chinese characters. For background in writing to me I have had a number of years of programming experience, but not in Python. I have never written a full program in Python. Also I have tried to learn or figure out exactly how Windows 95 deals with a Unicode codepoint for a Chinese character, the code page for GB2312 or cp936, a font for the character, and a GB2312 encoding for the character. Much of my learning on the new subjects has been to look for or read things on the Internet and to try things or conduct experiments on computers and draw conclusions from the results, as you have seen from this e-mail letter. Most importantly I would appreciate reading experts' opinions on what could be causing ?han4? to not be displayed in the Python application, which might be related to why it also wasn't displayed in OE5.5 with the SimSun font, and what you think should be done to fix what I am convinced is, at least in principle, a fixable problem in the Python application plus GTK+ plus PyGTK in a Windows-95 computing environment. What I want is to have instructions I can give to potential Windows-95, 98, Me, 2000, and XP users of the Python application for inputting simplified Chinese characters into it and saving files with those Chinese data in them. The Windows-XP solution that I have will probably work with Windows 2000, aside from perhaps a few changes in how the input method is set up and perhaps works differently in Windows 2000 compared to in Windows XP. I expect a good solution in Windows 95 would probably also work in a similar fashion in Windows 98 and Me. 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Lemburg) Date: Mon Apr 26 16:11:10 2004 Subject: [I18n-sig] Some input Asian characters not displayed in a Python application in Windows 95 In-Reply-To: <20040426.145818.1620.1.MaryMargS@juno.com> References: <20040426.145818.1620.1.MaryMargS@juno.com> Message-ID: <408D6CD4.1070502@egenix.com> I can't give you much input here, but AFAIK, Windows 95 does not handle Unicode well at all, so it may not be worthwhile trying to get it to display all characters correctly. -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, Apr 26 2004) >>> Python/Zope Consulting and Support ... http://www.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC.Zope.Database.Adapter ... http://zope.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC, mxDateTime, mxTextTools ... http://python.egenix.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ EuroPython 2004, G?teborg, Sweden 41 days left ::: Try mxODBC.Zope.DA for Windows,Linux,Solaris,FreeBSD for free ! :::: From johnli at ahlt.net Mon Apr 26 16:37:59 2004 From: johnli at ahlt.net (John Li) Date: Mon Apr 26 16:35:43 2004 Subject: [I18n-sig] Some input Asian characters not displayed in a Pythonapplication in Windows 95 In-Reply-To: <408D6CD4.1070502@egenix.com> Message-ID: <000101c42bce$62238990$d9824094@localnet> > I can't give you much input here, but AFAIK, Windows 95 > does not handle Unicode well at all, so it may not be > worthwhile trying to get it to display all characters > correctly. > I wouldn't be surprised if it also had problems with GB- or Big5-encoded text. 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