Pythonwin 132: Letters with Umlaut cause problems

[Wolfgang.Strobl at gmd.de.bbs]

"Neil Hodgson" <neilh at scintilla.org> wrote:

>> working with the new Build 132 of Pythonwin we have a minor problem.
>> German Umlauts are not handled properly in the editor windows.
>> They are shown as boxes, some of them seem to be dead keys.
>>
>> The problem did not exist in previous builds.
>> Does anyone have a hint ?
>
>   132 defaults to using Unicode for editing Python source code and the
>interactive window. To stop this, open Pythonwin\pywin\scintilla\view.py,
>find the OnInitialUpdate method and comment out the two lines under "#
>Enable Unicode if we can". Save the file, shut down Pythonwin and restart it
>and see if this fixes the problem.

It fixes the problem for umlauts, but pythonwin.exe still dies with a
access violation (0x05), at adress 0x1e14cd9e, when the ^-key (top left,
just below the esc key) is hit, on the German keyboard layout.


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