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John -----Original Message----- From: Ronald Oussoren [mailto:ronaldousso...@mac.com] Sent: Mon 5/25/2009 11:30 AM To: John Newman Cc: pythonmac-sig@python.org Subject: Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Chinese glyphs in Python 3 On 25 May, 2009, at 16:36, John Newman wrote: > Ronald > > See the attachment, where most of the Chinese glyphs are correctly > displayed, but not all. > > When I copy and paste these glyphs from Python 3 to JEdit, all the > glyphs display correctly, so the correct unicode code points are > there underlying the glyphs. I've tried most of the fonts available > to me in the GUI and I still can't get them all to display properly. > Could you post the actual text-file as well? Ronald > > John > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ronald Oussoren [mailto:ronaldousso...@mac.com] > Sent: Sun 5/24/2009 11:48 PM > To: John Newman > Cc: pythonmac-sig@python.org > Subject: Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Chinese glyphs in Python 3 > > John, > > On 25 May, 2009, at 1:34, John Newman wrote: > > > Apologies if my question is ridiculously trivial - I'm not a > developer, just a relatively new user of Python 3.0.1 on Mac OS > 10.4.11. and I have only just now joined the list. > > When I read in a Chinese text in the Python 3 IDLE GUI on > Windows XP I see all the Chinese glyphs displayed properly. On my > Mac, about one third of the Chinese characters are not displayed > correctly (just empty or black boxes in place of glyphs). It doesn't > matter whether I save/open texts as utf-8, utf-16, etc. [The glyphs > display fine in TextEdit, JEdit, Word etc.] And the same kind of > problem occurs when I scroll through the list of font names in > Preferences in IDLE: the names in Chinese glyphs have a number of > white or black boxes instead of the glyphs. > > I just assume that this has something to do with the locale > settings in IDLE? On my machine: > > >>> locale.getpreferredencoding() > 'mac-roman' > >>> locale.getlocale() > (None, None) > > In my Windows XP, the locale settings are (English, '1252') > and I presume that this difference is relevant to understanding the > different effects I get opening Chinese texts in my Windows XP and > my Mac. 'mac-roman' would not be my natural choice of encoding if I > am looking at Chinese text! I need an encoding which can handle the > range of glyphs we find in GB 18030, say. > > Am I being naive in thinking that all I have to do in Python > is somehow change the locale settings in some way which will display > Chnese glyphs? I'm at a loss to know what I should do in order to > display Chinese glyphs properly on the Mac. I tried experimenting > with "setlocale" but couldn't make progress. > > Any suggestions would be very welcome. > > > > This might be a font issue, although the default font (Courier) > seems to be capable of displaying unicode text and therefore saving > as UTF-8 should work. Another possible souce for this problem is > the GUI framework used by IDLE. > > Could you post an example of a file that shows the problem? > > Ronald > > > > > <glyphs.jpg>
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