Thanks for the reply. I made changes to my code according to your
example. Now any Scandinavian characters that are outputted by the
program are missing in the Tk text box.
I'm using a loading function like this to load the data that is to be
outputted by the program:
def loadWords(self, filename):
ret = []
try:
file = codecs.open(filename, 'r', 'utf-8', 'ignore')
for line in file:
if line.isspace() == False: #Must skip blank lines (read
only lines that contain text).
line = line.replace(u'\n', u'')
ret.append(line)
except IOError:
tkMessageBox.showwarning(u'Open File', u'An error occurred
wile trying to load \"' + filename + u'\"', parent=self.frame)
finally:
file.close()
return ret
Also, the newlines are still lost when saving the text widget contents
to a file. I'm inserting the program generated text to the text widget
through "text.insert(END, txt + u'\n\n')".
Janne Tuukkanen wrote:
> 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()
>
>
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