[Pythonmac-SIG] utf-8 using python 2.6.1 (os x 10.6.4)

[Ned Deily]

In article <p06020402c92c14625652@[192.168.1.13]>,
 Jym Feat <jf at ai.univ-paris8.fr> wrote:

> I'm having issues when using python 2.6.1 in interactive mode : it wouldn't 
> let me type anything but plain ascii... while the terminal itself will 
> properly display french accented characters as entered on the fly;
> 
> so I looked into site.py, found that silly instruction was still there on 
> line 456, changed it, to utf-8, but still no go...
> 
> hunting for a solution on the web, I learned about PYTHONIOENCODING and set 
> it to utf-8 in my environment: still no accented french chars...
> 
> then I checked the 'escape non ascii' option in the terminal settings: now I 
> can type words like Noël or Pâques, but there are still some oddities, like 
> the ¦ ligature for instance, that display as ?^?^?
> 
> has anybody solved that issue?

Without looking at it more closely, my guess would be an issue (or 
difference) between the Apple-supplied editline library which Apple uses 
as a substitute for the GNU readline library in the system-supplied 
Python 2.6.1 in OS X 10.6.  If you have the time, please try using the 
python.org 32-bit-only python 2.7.1 installer which is linked with GNU 
readline and then the python.org 64-bit python 2.7.1 which is currently 
linked with editline.  If the problem is duplicated there, please open 
an issue on the python bug tracker (bugs.python.org).

-- 
 Ned Deily,
 nad at acm.org