It wasn't a bash script, Richard.
I made exactly as I described: straight from terminal.
On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 2:23 PM, Richard Vézina
<ml.richard.vez...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Could it be the encoding of the file that content your bash script?
>
> Richard
>
>
> On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 12:23 PM, Vinicius Assef <vinicius...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hey all.
>>
>> I'm facing a strange problem concerning special characters.
>>
>> Using web2py shell, through command line (linux shell), I do this:
>>
>> # ---------------- start
>> $ python web2py.py -S welcome
>> web2py Web Framework
>> Created by Massimo Di Pierro, Copyright 2007-2013
>> Version 2.6.4-stable+timestamp.2013.09.22.01.43.37
>> Database drivers available: SQLite(sqlite3), MySQL(pymysql),
>> PostgreSQL(pg8000), IMAP(imaplib)
>> WARNING:web2py:import IPython error; use default python shell
>> Python 2.7.3 (default, Apr 10 2013, 06:20:15)
>> [GCC 4.6.3] on linux2
>> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>> (InteractiveConsole)
>> >>> print "áéíóú" # note the strange chars!
>> áéÃóú
>> >>> from unicodedata import normalize
>> >>> normalize("NFKD", "áéuíóú".decode("utf-8")).encode("ASCII", "ignore")
>> >>> # again!
>> 'AAuAA3Ao'
>> # ---------------- end
>>
>> Note the noisy characters on the last line.
>>
>>
>> Then, at the same machine, I enter into the naked Python shell and:
>> # ---------------- start
>> $ python
>> Python 2.7.3 (default, Apr 10 2013, 06:20:15)
>> [GCC 4.6.3] on linux2
>> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>> >>> print "áéíóú" # looks ok
>> áéíóú
>> >>> from unicodedata import normalize
>> >>> normalize("NFKD", "áéuíóú".decode("utf-8")).encode("ASCII", "ignore")
>> >>> # ok again.
>> 'aeiou'
>> # ---------------- end
>>
>> Everything works fine.
>>
>> The same code.
>>
>> I found this problem because I'm working to strip special characters
>> off of names, with unicodedata.normalize().
>>
>> If it wan't strange enough, the unicodedata.normalize() works fine
>> from web environment, throug app admin. There the normalization works
>> as expected (the same way as the standard naked Python shell).
>>
>> What could be the root of this situation?
>>
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>> - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation)
>> - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code)
>> - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues)
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