Ahh so its the actual printing that makes it error out outside of eclipse because its a different terminal that its printing to. Its the default DOS terminal in windows that runs then i run the script with python.exe and i guess its the same when i run with pythonw.exe just that the terminal window is not opened up, only the pyqt gui in this case.
I will try to fix it now when i know what it is :) I never thought about the terminal, last time i had the same problem i just were playing around for hours with unicode encode and decode and all that not-so-fun stuff :) Andrew Berg: Thanks, your crystal ball seems to be right :P On Tuesday, February 12, 2013 12:43:00 PM UTC+1, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > Magnus Pettersson wrote: > > > > > I am using Eclipse to write my python scripts and when i run them from > > > inside eclipse they work fine without errors. > > > > > > But almost in every script that handle some form of special characters > > > like swedish åäö and chinese characters etc > > > > A comment: they are not "special" characters. They're merely not American. > > > > > > > i get Unicode errors when > > > running the script externally with python.exe or pythonw.exe (but the > > > scripts run completely fine from within Eclipse (standard pydev projects, > > > python2.7). I have usually launched the script gui from wihin eclipse > > > because of this error but now i want to get the bottom of this so i dont > > > have to open eclipse everytime i want to run a script! > > > > > > Here is the error i get now when running the script with python.exe: > > > UnicodeEncodeError:'charmap' codec cant encode character u'\u898b' in > > > position 32: character maps to <undefined> > > > > Please show the *complete* traceback, including the line of code that causes > > the exception. > > > > > > > what can i do to fix this? > > > > My guess is that you are trying to print a character which your terminal > > cannot display. My terminal is set to use UTF-8, and so it can display it > > fine: > > > > py> c = u'\u898b' > > py> print(c) > > 見 > > > > > > (or at least it would display fine if the font used had a glyph for that > > character). Why there are still terminals in the world that don't default > > to UTF-8 is beyond me. > > > > If I manually change the terminal's encoding to Western European ISO 8859-1, > > I get some moji-bake: > > > > py> print(c) > > è¦ > > > > > > I can't replicate the exception you give, so I assume it is specific to > > Windows. > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
