[IPython-dev] Better reporting for non-ascii home dir names

[Ville M. Vainio]

On 4/30/07, Stefan van der Walt <stefan at sun.ac.za> wrote:

> > Here's a snippit that "works" for me:
> >
> > [D:\ipython]|25> p = pickleshare.Pic
> > pickleshare.PickleShareDB   pickleshare.PickleShareLink
> > [D:\ipython]|25> p = pickleshare.PickleShareDB('/tmp/äqäqäq')
>
> It works for me under r2235.  First I thought it was a Python 2.5 vs
> 2.4 thing, but seems to run fine under 2.4 as well.  Isn't there a
> workaround, such as encoding the string properly, that doesn't limit
> the functionality?

Well, now at least the user is informed how to get around the problem.

I'm afraid I don't know enough about unicode to guess how the string
should be decoded to unicode properly. If it was easy, it would
probably have been done in the path.py module.

I wouldn't mind enforcing 7 bit file & directory names myself.


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