Hi Evan,
By changing the encoding in |sitecustomize.py|, you would do it only for
our Python and IPython consoles and not for our internals, so it’s
perfectly fine if you want to follow this path.
Cheers,
Carlos
El 18/06/14 22:54, Evan Carter escribió:
Unfortunately not even editing .profile works for me; I can see that
the variables are set but Python's behavior is the same. While working
on it I did notice that sys.getfilesystemencoding() returns "utf-8",
with or without the new lines in .profile, so the problem may be
Python-specific.
I found another Stack Overflow question
<http://stackoverflow.com/a/18292358/2829764> that says
The default of Python 2.x is to use ascii. You can change it(can't
remember how) but it is not recommended, because it will break
libraries that use ascii strings. It is all changed in 3.x. where
UTF is the standard.
If this is correct then what I really want is to change the Spyder
console to use ascii rather than changing Python run in other contexts
to use utf-8.
I've just checked and seen that when I run sys.getdefaultencoding() in
Spyder's internal console I get 'ascii'. So I guess I can just remove
the code to set the default encoding to utf-8 from sitecustomize.py
without breaking the environment that Spyder itself runs in. Is that
correct?
I wonder why Spyder defaults to utf-8 in the first place, if it's not
what the program uses internally.
On Wednesday, June 18, 2014 5:24:50 PM UTC-4, Adrian Klaver wrote:
On 06/16/2014 09:30 PM, Evan Carter wrote:
> You are right that Spyder is messing with the encoding in its
> sitecustomize.py
>
<https://code.google.com/p/spyderlib/source/browse/spyderlib/widgets/externalshell/sitecustomize.py
<https://code.google.com/p/spyderlib/source/browse/spyderlib/widgets/externalshell/sitecustomize.py>>:
>
> |encoding = None
> try:
> import locale
> except ImportError:
> pass
> else:
> loc = locale.getdefaultlocale()
> if loc[1]:
> encoding = loc[1]
>
> if encoding is None:
> encoding = "UTF-8"
>
> try:
> sys.setdefaultencoding(encoding)
> os.environ['SPYDER_ENCODING'] = encoding
> except AttributeError:
> # Python 3
> pass|
>
> If I am so bold as to add |encoding = "ascii"| then
> |sys.getdefaultencoding()| does indeed give 'ascii' when run
from the
> console, but I don't know what the consequences will be of
messing with
> the encoding for all of Spyder. I'd like to change the encoding
only for
> the Python interpreter in the console, not the Python
environment in
> which Spyder is running. Unfortunately, adding
> |os.environ['SPYDER_ENCODING'] = 'ascii'| doesn't work: the
environment
> variable stays set but |sys.getdefaultencoding()| still gives
|"UTF-8"|.
>
Some Googling seems to indicate this SO question has the answer:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7165108/in-osx-lion-lang-is-not-set-to-utf8-how-fix/8161863#8161863
<http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7165108/in-osx-lion-lang-is-not-set-to-utf8-how-fix/8161863#8161863>
Try adding or editing the ~/.profile file for it to correctly export
your locale settings upon initiating a new session.
export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
These two lines added to the file should suffice to set the locale
[replace en_US for your desired locale, and check beforehand that
it is
indeed installed on your system (locale -a)].
After that, you can start a new session and check using locale:
If that does not work, I would say this is question for some OS X
experts, of which I am not.
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