Technically this is a Python question, not a Tkinter question, but it's in the
context of a Tkinter application so I don't feel *too* guilty about posting it
here.
OK. I've got at Tkinter application (running with Python 2.7.2 on Ubuntu
12.04.4 LTS) that needs to handle French accented characters. And it does
handle accented characters just fine. I can type an accented character into an
Entry and it shows up correctly. I can display it on a Text. I can cPickle it
to disk and read it back. For example, if I enter e-circumflex (in at Tkinter
Entry) and then print it using repr I get:
u\'EA'
If I look in the cPickled file there are 0xEA's where the e-circumflex
characters are. So far so good.
The problem comes when I need to read into my Tkinter application a file which
has accented characters and which was prepared using a text editor like, for
example, gedit. The file to be read also has 0xEA's to represent e-circumflex.
However, when I read such a file the resulting string then contains u'\cd\xaa'
where the e-circumflexes belong. I don't know who is doing the unwanted
conversion or how to make it go away. I've tried reading in binary mode, I've
tried opening the file using:
F = codecs.open('temp.txt', encoding='latin-1')
I've tried putting:
# -*- coding: latin-1 -*
as the second line of my program. I've tried reading Python/unicode
documentation till my eyes went blurry. All to no avail.
There is probably some really simple solution to this, but so far I've failed
to find. it.
Thus, if anyone out there in Tkinter land knows the simple solution or could
point me to a good source of information I would greatly appreciate it.
Thanks
Cam Farnell
_______________________________________________
Tkinter-discuss mailing list
Tkinter-discuss@python.org
https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tkinter-discuss
