On Wed, 07 Feb 2007 17:30:26 +0000 Paulino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi everyone! > > I have some strings that include special characters, to be displayed in > widget labels ( PyQt4 ). > The output changes in diferent OS's due to diferent sys.stdout encoding > > Not only the labels in the GUI change, but the source file strings are > altered when I move from win to linux and vice-versa. > > The solution I found for now was to replace the special characters in > the source file string for their representation: > I replaced "é" (e acute ) by "\xe9" wich correpsond to chr(233) in the > cp1252 encoding. > > The character é (e acute) in linux is not recognized in the source file, > neither in IDLE nor in Kate > My win sys.stdout.encoding is cp850 and the linux one is utf-8 > > Now I have "d\xe9bito" instead of "débito" (debit in portuguese). By > passing the string through unicode with the convinient encoding, I > ensure the labels are exibithed the same in every OS but, this way the > code is not very readable. > > Is there a way of solving this, keeping the more readable? > _______________________________________________ Have you tried to declare the encoding in use at the top of your Python source file, like: # -*- coding: iso-8859-1 -*- If you put this at the first line of your .py files (of course replace iso-8859-1 with whatever encoding you use) I think this should do the trick. I hope this helps Michael _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor