[Pythonmac-SIG] Umlaut/nonASCII in python2.2.1 from fink

[Peter Paul Sint]

Installed python2.2.1 from fink on MacOS10.1.5
 http://fink.sourceforge.net/pdb/package.php/python

Unix terminals do not allow entering Umlauts/non-ascii
xu=3D"=E4=F6=FC=DF"  # "Umlaut a, umlaut o, umlaut u, unvoiced s"


In a script I can write
x=3D"abcd"
print x
xu=3Du"=E4=F6=FC=DF"
xu =3Dxu.encode("latin-1") 
print xu

In Terminal this results in

psint% python scriptpython.py 
abcd
????
% 

However,

python scriptpython.py > newfile.txt

 results in a file with readable non-ascii (as long as Latin-1).
 This is a solution, although non interactively.

Obviously there are two IDE solutions which may solve the problem
http://www.cwi.nl/~jack/macpython.html 
Do they?


As I assume you need to download a separate python for this. I am not=
 especially keen to remove the existing fink-python or to install a second o=
ne.

Is there a simple solution with the line-interface python automating the=
 editor to pyton to editor process. XDarwin+WindowMaker is installed but I=
 have no experience with it. Does emacs support umlauts/non-ascii (I guess=
 it could be used to support the transfer but I know near to nothing about=
 its advanced features to achieve this). 
There seems to be a similar solution for TeX (tetex) and BBEdit
http://www.kiffe.com/textools.html  or
http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~franconi/mac-emacs/ .


There is a Python FAQ entry (4.01.)
http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw.py?req=3Dshow&file=3Dfaq04.102.htp
which may hint to a more direct solution avoiding Latin-1 but I am not yet=
 quite sure how. (This does not change terminal but maybe output to files?)


Peter