Strange behavior in PythonWin IDE

[Gilles Lenfant]

Anders Eriksson wrote:

> Hello!
> 
> I'm using ActivePython 2.3.2 build 232 on Windows 2000 and I have noticed
> a strange behavior in PythonWin IDE (win32all build 163)
> 
> I'm from Sweden and we have a couple of letters in our alphabet that isn't
> part of ASCII and the strangeness is about one of them
> 
> When I use the letter å (å) then the next character is eaten! Then
> when I enter the next character (the second after å) the last one appears.
> 
> E.g.
> I want to write the word: "låna"
> I enter: "lå
> I enter: n ,but it won't show
> I enter: a , and the n appears
> I enter: " , and a s appears
> So in the editor I now have: "låns
> 
> If I then enter a " PythonWin thinks that I'm beginning a new string and
> changes the color.
> 
> If I then save the file and open it in another editor. Then I have the
> correct word: "låna"
> 
> But if I run the program from the command prompt I get this error/warning
> 
> "C:\Documents and Settings\ame\My Documents\My Scripts>python test.py
> sys:1: DeprecationWarning: Non-ASCII character '\xe5' in file test.py on
> line 1, but no encoding declared; see
> http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html for details
> 
> What is the error and what can I do to fix it?
> 
> // Anders
> 

This bug (and others related to charsets) has been submitted some months
ago...

https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=716708&group_id=78018&atid=551954

Perhaps you can help adding other bug scenarios.

Cheers

--
Gilles