Umlauts revisited: Now they prevent program from running

[Franz GEIGER]

Wow again! That's what I was lookin' for!

Lot of thanks and best regards
Franz


"Michael Hudson" <mwh21 at cam.ac.uk> wrote in message
news:m31ytqxswl.fsf at atrus.jesus.cam.ac.uk...
> "Franz GEIGER" <fgeiger at datec.at> writes:
>
> > Wow! Both of yours - Alex and Michael - did the trick! Thanks a lot!
>
> Pleasure.
>
> > Is there another trick to switch globally to this encoding? Or do I have
to
> > check for '\xyz' characters and then encode them?
>
> You can call sys.setdefaultencoding in your sitecustomize.py (you have
> to call this function right at the very start of your application so
> it's deleted in site.py).
>
> > For now I do a try. If an exception is catched I call the encode method.
>
> It would be better to call the .encode method every time.
>
> > Is this the way doing it _always_ if umlauts could come across my way?
> > That'd be cumbersome because the German language is teeming with umlauts
> > (o.k., carried it too far ;-))
>
> Probably writing yourself a sitecustomize.py is the way to go.
>
> Cheers,
> M.
>
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