Nick, I've checked my other Dabo installation on a Vista.

Of course, you're right, getEncoding() is in dabo.__init__().

I'll try to figure out, later, what has happened with my other installation

on Win7.

Maybe I muddled up something while installing it.

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From: "Nick Raptis" <airscorp@otenet.gr>

Sent: Sunday, May 22, 2011 11:54 PM

To: <dabo-users@leafe.com>

Subject: Re: [dabo-users] Reenv: Problem in Dabo demo

>

> On 05/22/2011 08:03 PM, melkarth0 wrote:

>> Hello, Ed, Hraban and Nick.

>>

>> I've found a nice way to solve the "dabo demo problem" with my

>> "latin-1"="iso8859-1" character set, without changing a single line of

>> the

>> dabo framework.

>>

>> Simply create a file " sitecustomize.py" under Lib\site-packages in my

>> python directory:

>>

>> # sitecustomize.py

>> # this file can be anywhere in your Python path,

>> # but it usually goes in ${pythondir}/lib/site-packages/

>> import sys

>> sys.setdefaultencoding('iso8859-1')

>>

>> This method "set the current default string encoding used by the Unicode

>> implementation" (Python library reference).

>>

>> Before I made this 'discovery', I've tested Nick's proposal :

>>

>> cd, ch = evt.keyCode, unicode(evt.keyChar, dabo.getEncoding())

>>

>> . . . and :

>>

>> File "C:\Projects\dabo\demo\samples/dTextBox.py", line 55, in

>> onTextKeyChar

>> def onTextKeyChar(self, evt):

>> AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'getEncoding'

>>

> Hehe, strange because it's in dabo's __init__.py and surely:

>

> Python 2.6.5 (r265:79063, Apr 16 2010, 13:57:41)

> [GCC 4.4.3] on linux2

> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

> >>> import dabo

> >>> dabo.getEncoding()

> 'UTF8'

> >>>

>

> Whatever, I'm glad you sorted this out. Will keep your workaround in mind

> ;)

>

>> It seems that my dabo has no getEncoding() method.

>>

>> The solution Ed gave me : to put 'settings_override.py' file in demo

>> folder, with line : defaultEncoding = "latin-1" did not work (no error,

>> but

>> no different results).

>>

>> Ok, now I'm done with the demo. It goes OK.

>>

>> So I begin exploring the Dabo AppWizard and I've generated the CRUD/File

>> Management form. When I go to see the grid of customers (the Browse tab):

>> lots of wrong characters in the name and address columns!

>> Then, I've entered a new record and -Eureka, it's ok! -The new record is

>> exactly as I've entered. So, the other records already entered in the

>> online

>> database were input by other users with other encodings. PHEW! Big

>> relief.

>>

>> melkarth

>>

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