[py2exe.i18n] English works, German works, but not French. What do I miss?

[F. GEIGER]

"Harald Massa" <cpl.19.ghum at spamgourmet.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> "F. GEIGER" <f.geiger at vol.at> wrote in news:cev7g9$3fm$1 at newshispeed.ch:
>
> > When I start a py2exe-ed application I get the error
> >
> > 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe9' in position 10: ordinal
> > not in range(128)
>
>
> encodings: prepare to spend the night.
>
> First reading:
> http://starship.python.net/crew/theller/moin.cgi/EncodingsAgain
>
> Second:
> your error msg says that you are trying to encode sth. NOT ASCII to
> ASCII...
>
> I guess:
> your lokale site has another encoding configured
>
>
> import sys
> sys.getdefaultencoding()
>
> -- returns sth. like Latin-1
>
> And the py2exed application does not read siteconfig.py, and so in the
> running app sys.getdefaultencoding() would be some thing different.
>
> My approach to this is:
>
> in the beginning of the app I write:
>
> import sys
> if hasattr(sys,"setdefaultencoding"):
>     sys.setdefaultencoding("latin-1")
>
> so ... when no site-config was run, I manually set my default encoding to
> latin-1
>
> works great (together with what I described within the wiki)

Phew, that did it - works great. Thanx a lot, Harald!

Cheers
Franz GEIGER

>
> Harald