Hi friends, I am really sorry to bother you with such a simple stupid question but today it's my second day spent in searching manuals, mail-archives (I downloaded over 100MB from "python-list"), etc., and I could not find anything that can solve the matter.
I am from Bulgaria and I use Python (+wxPython+Boa Constructor) as a front-end to database processing with Firebird. I use Python 2.4.1 over Windows 98 SE. My keyboard is set as default Bulgarian keyboard (keybg) so I can write in Bulgarian using win32 application as well in MS DOS prompt. That should correspond to 'cp1251' (win32) and 'cp855' (DOS console) encodings. But when I enter some Bulgarian (actually cyrillic) text as a string, it seems that Python automatically converts it to '\x00..\x00 ' and once converted that way I can't get it back into its original look. The only way to get it right is using print : >>> a = 'МАМА' # 'Mam' in Bulgarian >>> print a 'МАМА' but >>> a '\xcc\xe0\xec\xe0' It is not such a great problem that the string enters or gets out of the database in that look as long as the user doesn't see it. But when it comes to data visualization I can't expect the user to know what '\xcc\xe0\xec\xe0' mean, neither can I use (at least as much as I know) 'print' for that job. To visualize data in the base I use table views created with wxGrid. In the grid instead of 'МАМА' I am getting '\xcc\xe0\xec\xe0'. To set the value of a particular cell in the grid I use wxGrid::SetCellValue : self.grid1.SetCellValue(row, column, string) In one of O'Reilly's Python books (Learning Python, chapter 8.3.2)there is a hint that it is possible to redirect the standard output to a user-defined object but it is not quite clear how that can be achived and if that is applicable in my case at all. Your help is of great need and would be truely appreciated! Thank you very much! degoor -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
