[New-bugs-announce] [issue7675] help() doesn't accept unicode literals in built in docstrings

[pablo stapff]

New submission from pablo stapff <pablo.stapff at gmail.com>:

We use umlaut in our docstrings and when we use the help() function to extract the documentation, the function reports an error:

UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character....

Our docstrings are specified as unicode literals and the source file contains the line:

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-


just import the module and make:

 help(tudelut.tudelut)

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components: Library (Lib)
files: tudelut.py
messages: 97584
nosy: psd
severity: normal
status: open
title: help() doesn't accept unicode literals in built in docstrings
type: behavior
versions: Python 2.6
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file15827/tudelut.py

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