Foreign Character Problems In Python 2.5 and Tkinter

[Janne Tuukkanen]

Juha S. kirjoitti:
> problem is that when I try to save its contents to a .txt file, any 
> Scandinavian letters such as "äöå ÄÖÅ" are saved incorrectly and show up 
> as a mess when I open the .txt file in Windows Notepad.
> 
> It seems that the characters will only get mixed if the user has typed 
> them into the widget, but if the program has outputted them, they are 
> saved correctly.

 Did you define the encoding for the source file and
put u (for unicode) in front of your strings. The
following piece produces proper UTF-8. Couldn't test with
Notepad though, no Windows here.

 Note this message is also encoded in UTF-8, so should be
your editor. I can't believe we are still messing with this
stuff in 2007. In old bad days it was easy, you should
only learn to read { as ä, | as ö etc... and vice versa
with localized terminals -- C code looked rather exotic
with a-umlauts everywhere ;)


#!/usr/bin/python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

from Tkinter import *
import codecs

class Application(Frame):
    def save(self):
        FILE = codecs.open("outfile.txt", "w", "utf-8")
        FILE.write(u"START - åäöÅÄÖ\n")
        FILE.write(self.text_field.get(0.0, END))
        FILE.write(u"END - åäöÅÄÖ\n")
        FILE.close()
        self.quit()
        
    def __init__(self, master=None):
        Frame.__init__(self, master)
        self.grid()

        self.text_field = Text(self, width=40, height=10)
        self.text_field.grid()
        
        self.save_button = Button(self, text="save and exit", command=self.save)
        self.save_button.grid()
        
if __name__ == "__main__":
    app = Application()
    app.mainloop()