UnicodeEncodeError when not running script from IDE

[Magnus Pettersson]

Ahh so its the actual printing that makes it error out outside of eclipse because its a different terminal that its printing to. Its the default DOS terminal in windows that runs then i run the script with python.exe and i guess its the same when i run with pythonw.exe just that the terminal window is not opened up, only the pyqt gui in this case.

I will try to fix it now when i know what it is :)

I never thought about the terminal, last time i had the same problem i just were playing around for hours with unicode encode and decode and all that not-so-fun stuff :)

Andrew Berg: Thanks, your crystal ball seems to be right :P

On Tuesday, February 12, 2013 12:43:00 PM UTC+1, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> Magnus Pettersson wrote:
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> > I am using Eclipse to write my python scripts and when i run them from
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> > inside eclipse they work fine without errors.
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> > But almost in every script that handle some form of special characters
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> > like swedish åäö and chinese characters etc
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> A comment: they are not "special" characters. They're merely not American.
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> > i get Unicode errors when 
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> > running the script externally with python.exe or pythonw.exe (but the
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> > scripts run completely fine from within Eclipse (standard pydev projects,
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> > python2.7). I have usually launched the script gui from wihin eclipse
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> > because of this error but now i want to get the bottom of this so i dont
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> > have to open eclipse everytime i want to run a script!
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> > Here is the error i get now when running the script with python.exe:
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> > UnicodeEncodeError:'charmap' codec cant encode character u'\u898b' in
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> > position 32: character maps to <undefined>
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> Please show the *complete* traceback, including the line of code that causes
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> the exception.
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> > what can i do to fix this?
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> My guess is that you are trying to print a character which your terminal
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> cannot display. My terminal is set to use UTF-8, and so it can display it
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> fine:
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> py> c = u'\u898b'
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> py> print(c)
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> 見
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> (or at least it would display fine if the font used had a glyph for that
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> character). Why there are still terminals in the world that don't default
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> If I manually change the terminal's encoding to Western European ISO 8859-1,
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> I get some moji-bake:
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> py> print(c)
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> è¦
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> I can't replicate the exception you give, so I assume it is specific to
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> Windows.
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> Steven