It seems as if the curses module in Python 3.0 isn't respecting the system's preferred encoding (utf-8) which was set via: locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, '')
The purpose of this was described at the top of ' http://docs.python.org/dev/3.0/library/curses.html#module-curses'. The getlocale function is reporting the proper values ('en_US', 'UTF8') but addstr is clearly not treating it as Unicode - is this a bug? -Damian 2008/12/28 Damian Johnson <atag...@gmail.com> > Hi, I've switched to Python 3.0 for a new Japanese vocab quizzing > application due to its much improved Unicode support. However, I'm running > into an issue with displaying Unicode characters via curses. In Python 2.x a > simple hello-world looks like: > > #!/usr/bin/python > # coding=UTF-8 > > import curses > import locale > > locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL,"") > > def doStuff(stdscr): > message = u"hello わたし!" > stdscr.addstr(0, 0, message.encode("utf-8"), curses.A_BLINK) > stdscr.getch() # pauses until a key's hit > > curses.wrapper(doStuff) > > This works. However, when I try to come up with an equivalent for Python > 3.0: > > #!/usr/bin/python > > import curses > import locale > > locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL,"") > > def doStuff(stdscr): > message = "hello わたし!" > stdscr.addstr(0, 0, message, curses.A_BLINK) > stdscr.getch() # pauses until a key's hit > > curses.wrapper(doStuff) > > It fails (printing gibberish to the console). Anyone have a clue what I'm > doing wrong? Thanks! -Damian > > PS. Is the "# coding=UTF-8" header meaningless in Python 3.0? Also, is > "locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL,"")" still necessary for getting curses to > provide Unicode support? > >
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