Re: [web2py] Why the web2py shell returns different results?

[Ricardo Pedroso]

On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 7:56 PM, sesenmaister <sesenmais...@gmail.com> wrote:
> When I use web2py 1.99.7 shell  (web2py.exe -S welcome) :
>
>>>> unicode('Äpple','utf-8')
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<console>", line 1, in <module>
> UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0x8e in position 0:
> unexpected code byte

Here you are saying to unicode function that the string is encoded in
utf-8 so it will try to
decode using utf-8 codec but your terminal emulator is configured to iso-8859-1
so when you enter 'Äpple' you put it encoded in iso-8859-1


>>>> unicode('Äpple','iso-8859-1')
> u'\x8epple'


> When running normally web2py (as localhost 127.0.0.1):
>
> def codificacion1():
>     response.write(unicode('Äpple','utf-8'))
>     response.write('<br>,escape=False')
>     response.write(unicode('Äpple','iso-8859-1'))
>     return ()
>
> it returns:
>
> Äpple Äpple

Here you are using some editor configured to use utf-8. So when you write
'Äpple' is in utf-8.


To see the differences from both "worlds" you can do in shell:

print repr('Äpple')

In web2py:

def codificacion1():
    response.write(repr('Äpple'))

And I am almost 100% sure that you will get a different sequence of
bytes.


> How can I do for having same results in the shell?

Your terminal emulator and your editor both need to have the same
capabilities and configured identically.

Ricardo