Starting from pywin 211, typing non-ascii chars in any Scintilla control in
PythonWin is broken. These characters are truncated to the lower 8 bits of
their Unicode values. The changelog of Scintilla 1.75 (the version used in 211
and 212) mentions some Unicode enhancements, which might be the
Donald:
I'm going to do a little information thing here...
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Liu, Donald (H USA) wrote:
Hi Mark,
Thanks for your reply. I ran dir c:\Windows\system32\py*.dll, and got
the following:
C:\dir Windows\system32\py*.dll
Volume in drive C is System
Volume Serial Number is F8F2-995F
Directory of C:\Windows\system32
03/27/2008 06:12 PM
Vernon,
Thanks for the tip, which I followed, but the result was not good yet.
[I'm inclined to think that there's something wrong with my PC at work,
but it's beyond me to figure out what. I upgraded to Windows XP Pro
Service Pack 3.]
I downloaded python-2.5.4.msi from python.org, and
Vernon,
You solved my problem! I was using Bazaar 1.9 (bzr-setup-1.9.exe)
previously. After upgrading to Bazaar 1.11, all the problems
disappeared. I'm sticking to Python 2.5 because that's what's being
used. Since I'm new to Python, I don't want to be using a different
version than the
FYI, I wrote those Tortoise shell extensions too :) We recently moved to
the shell extension portion to C++ to avoid this exact problem. It is
likely that a similar error would be seen using *any* program which embeds
Python and displays a file open dialog - pythonwin obviously is such a
