[Zopyrus] A python IDE for teaching that supports cyrillic i/o

[Kirill Simonov]

On Sun, Nov 19, 2006 at 02:49:43AM +0600, Gleb Kulikov wrote:
> В сообщении от Воскресенье 19 Ноябрь 2006 01:01 Kirill Simonov написал:
> 
> > first programming language to high school students?  It is necessary
>
> > Unfortunately, most IDEs I tried failed miserably in this respect.  My
>
> > For the record, I've checked IDLE, PythonWin, Eric, DrPython, SPE, and
> 
> Pardon, eric (eric-3.9.0-alt1 is in use), "speak" Russian quite well.
> We are trying to teach schoolers with a Python in an advanced elementary 
> school (9th - 11th). Yes, there is a problem with Cyrillic in eric's built-in 
> interpreter window (KOI8 locale is used) and *only* in the built-in 
> interpreter window, but there is short workaround for it: if avoid "# -*- 
> coding..." declaration, Cyrillic is painted well.

Hmm... Perhaps, you are right.  I remember quite well seeing
UnicodeDecodeError in eric, but now I couldn't reproduce it.
Still it would be good if eric could automatically add the BOM mark to
files containing non-ASCII characters (for UTF-8). That way the
deprecation warning about PEP 263 would be avoided.

There is a bigger problem though: it is difficult (if possible) to
install it under Windows.


Thanks,
Kirill