[IPython-dev] IPython cannot display e acute accent

[Fernando Perez]

On 9/17/07, Gael Varoquaux <gael.varoquaux at normalesup.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 03:48:25PM +0200, Nicolas Girard wrote:
> > surprisingly enough, IPython allows me to type any **but one** accented
> > character interactively, namely "e with acute accent" (é). IPython displays
> > several spaces instead of 'é'.
> > All other accented characters I could try were displayed properly.
> > Also, this problem does not occur using the standard python console.
>
> Hi. Could you give us the version of python and ipython that you are
> using ? As well as the platform you are working on, and how you installed
> ipython. I don't have this problem.

I don't either:

In [1]: print "áéíóú àèìòù äëïöü ñÑ çÇ(c)"
áéíóú àèìòù äëïöü ñÑ çÇ(c)

Very strange.  More platform details are definitely needed.

Cheers,

f