dmbkiwi wrote:
> I'm trying to get python, unicode and kdialog to play nicely
together.
> This is a linux machine, and kdialog is a way to generate dialog
boxes in
> kde with which users can interact (for example input text), and you
can
> use the outputted text in your script.
>
> Anyway, what I'm doing is reading from a utf-8 encoded text file
using the
> codecs module, and using the following:
>
> data = codecs.open('file', 'r', 'utf-8')
>
> I then manipulate the data to break it down into text snippets.
>
> Then I run this command:
>
>>>> test = os.popen('kdialog --inputbox %s' %(data))
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
> UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u017a' in
> position 272: ordinal not in range(128)
>
> I would really like kdialog display the text as utf-8. However, it
seems
> that python is trying to pass the utf-8 encoded data as ascii, which
> obviously fails because it can't deal with the utf-8 encoded text.
Is it
> possible to pass the text out to kdialog as utf-8, rather than ascii?
kdialog will accept a limited form of markup as text, including xml
character escapes. so you should be able to display polish text
correctly using this method:
>>> import os
>>> s = """Wszyscy ludzie rodz\xc4\x85 si\xc4\x99
... wolni i r\xc3\xb3wni pod wzgl\xc4\x99dem
... swej godno\xc5\x9bci i swych praw. S\xc4\x85
... oni obdarzeni rozumem i sumieniem i powinni
... post\xc4\x99powa\xc4\x87 wobec innych w duchu
... braterstwa."""
>>> s = s.decode('utf-8').encode('ascii','xmlcharrefreplace')
>>> k = os.popen('kdialog --inputbox "<p>%s</p>"' % s)
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