[python-win32] Serious bug in pywin32?

[Mark Tolonen]

"Elias Fotinis" <efotinis at yahoo.com> wrote in message 
news:910266.84177.qm at web52901.mail.re2.yahoo.com...
> --- On Fri, 1/30/09, Mark Tolonen <metolone+gmane at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Two days ago I changed Control
>> Panel, Regional and Language Options, Advanced tab,
>> "Select a language to match the language version of the
>> non-Unicode programs you want to use:" from
>> "English (United States)" to "Chinese
>> (PRC)" to work with Python 2.6 and 3.0 Unicode scripts
>> dealing with Chinese characters at the console prompt.
>
> I tried that and got the same behavior. This must be related to the 
> Scintilla bug I mentioned earlier ("PythonWin non-ascii chars typing bug" 
> on Jan 26).
>
> The first of my suggestions (downgrading to Scintilla 1.74) will resolve 
> this (at least with ASCII chars; I didn't try with Chinese).
>
> The second one (Scintilla 1.77 + SCI_SETKEYSUNICODE) doesn't help with 
> Chinese, even though it works for a Greek system codepage (cp1253). 
> Probably because the Chinese codepage is multibyte.

Great, thanks for reproducing.  The crash dialog does implicate the 
scintilla.dll as the location of the fault.  I'll file the bug.

-Mark