[Idle-dev] Known bug? Saving fails in IDLE if accents used in characters

[Harri Pasanen]

Hi,

In Python 2.2.1, Mandrake 9.0,  and Python 2.2.2 on Windows 2000/Win98 
trying out IDLE, I'm observing the following:

File->New Window

Type:

# déjà

Save: t.py

-->

Exception in Tkinter callback
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/lib-tk/Tkinter.py", line 1292, in __call__
    return apply(self.func, args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/idle/IOBinding.py", line 126, 
in save
    self.save_as(event)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/idle/IOBinding.py", line 136, 
in save_as
    if self.writefile(filename):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/idle/IOBinding.py", line 154, 
in writefile
    f.write(chars)
UnicodeError: ASCII encoding error: ordinal not in range(128)

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In browsing the bugs, I saw some related problems but not exactly this 
one.  It was actually my 12 year old son who found this problem - he 
wanted to learn programming, so I pointed him to IDLE, and a tutorial 
in French (http://www.p3b.org/tutor/denis), but the experience was 
not so rewarding due to this bug.  So now he is playing with XEmacs + 
python, but I'm not sure if that is the best novice environment.

Regards,

Harri