Hello This is not really a Dabo problem but a situation that only occurs on a few platforms and SCO Open Server 6 and UnixWare 7 being 2 of them.
If you use sys.getfilefilesystemencoding call in Python it will almost always return 'None' on SCO, 99.9% of the time. None is documented as a proper response. However sometimes Python developers always assume that it will return something meaningful. I know when I installed Dabo last month I found a couple of calls and they were crashing the software. I hacked them to get them working. Normally if None is returned we code to default to ISO8859-1 or UTF-8 encoding. This was also a problem in wxGTK, which propagated to wxPython, which propagated to Dabo. SCO engineering and I had a long discussion and we finally found that 'None' was documented as a proper return from the call. So I do have some encoding problems using Dabo: Expecting <type 'str'>; got <type 'unicode'> which I know is part of that problem. It is not breaking the run. As I have time I will look for the problems and advise to see if we can come up with a solution that can be included upstream. This long post's intention is informational only and not a request for anything other than listening for now. Thanks for listening and I am really enjoying using Dabo. I want to thank everyone for their help getting me started. Paul McNary [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/dabo-users Searchable Archives: http://leafe.com/archives/search/dabo-users This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
