Using more than 7 bit ASCII on windows.

[Mark Hammond]

Syver Enstad wrote:

> "Mark Hammond" <MarkH at ActiveState.com> wrote in message

> I read that extended characters should work in the interactive window on the
> active state page. But I can't seem to get it to work. Here are some
> examples from my interactive window (using python 2.0 with win32all 135 and
> the update you mentioned).


I think I have fixed this.  Pythonwin was printing characters OK, but 
wasnt _reading_ them back OK.  There may be other places similar 
problems will lurk, so please experiment!

Assuming you have installed 135 or ActivePython, and have installed the 
update I mentioned, then you can also try the following change.

pywin\framework\interact.py, line 304.  We need to add 2 lines.  The 
entire function in question then becomes:

   def DoGetLine(self, line=-1):
     if line==-1: line = self.LineFromChar()
     line = self.GetLine(line)
     if pywin.is_platform_unicode:
       line = unicode(line, "utf-8").encode("mbcs")
     while line and line[-1] in ['\r', '\n']:
       line = line[:-1]
     return line

(Note that indents are using tabs in the source file - it is an old one 
;-).  The 2 lines added are:

<tab><tab>if pywin.is_platform_unicode:
<tab><tab><tab>line = unicode(line, "utf-8").encode("mbcs")

Please try applying this, and let me know if it works.  If I use the 
Windows "Character Map" application to paste an extended character, this 
is the behaviour I now see:

 >>> s="?"
 >>> s
'\337'
 >>> print s
ß
 >>>

(Assuming the characters make it through this new-fangled newsreader ;-) 
  Eeek - now the newsreader is asking me to pick the encoding due to 
those characters.  *sigh*  My choices are all character sets with funny 
numbers and names that give me no clue.  *double sigh*.

Which is the same as what I get for Python.exe...

Mark.