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[DiliupG]

Thanks for the support.

Mu main problem was in the editor I was using which I did not mention.

I was using Wing IDE Pro instead of the Python IDE. BY the answer given by
erik sun I applied the same idea to th Wing IDE i/o to utf-8 and everything
worked. Thanks for your support and pardon me for not supplying all the
info.

On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 10:11 AM, DiliupG <diliupg at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thank you for the responses.
> Some filenames I use are in Unicode in this script and there is no display
> or typing problem in Windows (Vista, 7 and 10). Filenames and text in word
> processing and text files are ALL displayed properly WITHOUT any errors by
> the Windows system.
>
> When I use a standard font in the local language there is no problem at
> all but I need to retype ALL display text in all the Python programs which
> is a tedious task.
>
> Having read all answers is there no way this can be done without modifing
> code on my computer? Thepurpose is to deliver a WIndows software for ALL
> Windows users.
>
> I am reading in a list of file names with the following code.
>
>     def get_filelist(self):
>         """"""
>         app = QtGui.QApplication(sys.argv)
>         a = QtGui.QFileDialog.getOpenFileNames()
>
>         filelist = []
>         if a:
>             for name in a:
>                 a = unicode(name)
>
>                 filelist.append(a)
>
>         return filelist
>
> mainprg.filelist = mainprg.get_filelist()
>
> filelist = mainprg.filelist
>
> for name in filelist:
>     print name             < ---- THIS IS WHERE THE PROBLEM IS
>
> Thanks for feed back.
>
> On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 3:58 PM, Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info>
> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 01:08:02PM +0530, DiliupG wrote:
>> > I am using Python 2.7.12 on Windows 10
>>
>> Two errors:
>>
>> - first error is that Unicode strings in Python 2 need to be written as
>> unicode objects, with a "u" prefix in the delimiter:
>>
>> # ASCII byte string:
>> "Hello World"
>>
>> # Unicode string:
>>
>> u"මේක ත"
>>
>> ASCII strings "..." cannot give you the right results except by
>> accident. You must use unicode strings u"..."
>>
>> - Second possible problem: using Windows, which may not support the
>> characters you are trying to use. I don't know -- try it and see. If it
>> still doesn't work, then blame Windows. I know that Linux and Mac OS X
>> both use UTF-8 for filenames, and so support all of Unicode. But
>> Windows, I'm not sure. It might be localised to only use Latin-1
>> (Western European) or similar.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Steve
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>
>
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>
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