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'

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

-----Original Message-----

From: dabo-users-bounces@leafe.com [mailto:dabo-users-bounces@leafe.com] On

Behalf Of Nick Raptis

Sent: sábado, 21 de mayo de 2011 14:57

To: dabo-users@leafe.com

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

Just my 2 cents:

On 05/21/2011 10:02 AM, melkarth0 wrote:

> Finally, it seems that I'm bound to 'latin-1' encoding.

>

I'm starting to think that this is about wx putting a value to keyChar in

your systems default encoding instead of utf-8

> I changed line 56 in dTextBox.py, in onTextKeyChar() section in the demo:

>

> cd, ch = evt.keyCode, evt.keyChar

>

> for this one:

>

> cd, ch = evt.keyCode, unicode(evt.keyChar, 'latin-1')

>

> and now runs fine and logit() displays a beautiful a-acute.

>

> More, unicode(evt.keyChar, 'utf-8') doesn't work.

>

unicode(evt.keyChar, 'latin-1') actually sounds pretty sane.

You just need to dynamically get the default encoding via a property instead

of hardcoding it.

I think this is dabo.getEncoding(), so try

unicode(evt.keyChar, dabo.getEncoding())

Most of us don't see this error because our default encoding is utf-8

anyway.

> But, please, if anybody has a better approach, make me know it. I have

> a conceptual confusion with this encodings stuff. For example, if I

> put the line # -*- coding: latin-1 -*- on all the affected demo

> modules, will it works as is?

>

> Greetings

> Melkarth

>

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