On 11/28/2013 5:48 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 9:22 AM, <mefistofe...@gmail.com> wrote:
I have the following script however when the clipboard contents are
greek letters it fails to print them right. I have used all posible
encoding for greek letters including utf8 but to no avail so i just
stay with latin1.
When you use a 3rd patch module like 'win32clipboard', you should give a
url for the source or doc. Were you using
http://docs.activestate.com/activepython/2.4/pywin32/win32clipboard.html
There are other programs on Pypi, such as pyclip.
You need to know what encoding is actually being used. Attempting to
decode using arbitrary encodings is doomed to failure. Possibly
Windows is using some kind of global default encoding, or possibly
you can query the other program for its encoding, but you're unlikely
to succeed by pointing the decode gun in random directions and
firing.
Searching "windows clipboard encoding" return pages such as
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1929812/how-does-cut-and-paste-affect-character-encoding-and-what-can-go-wrong
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms649015%28v=vs.85%29.aspx
http://www.dmst.aueb.gr/dds/sw/outwit/winclip.html
These suggest that there should be utf-8 and/or utf-16le versions of any
text pasted.
http://docs.activestate.com/activepython/2.4/pywin32/win32clipboard__GetClipboardData_meth.html
say you could use
GetClipboardData(CF_UNICODETEXT)
which should reliably give you utf-16le.
I get the impression that CF_TEXT should be utf-8 but might not be.
EnumClipboardFormats
will let you see what is available.
Incidentally, you may find things easier if you switch to Python 3.3
- quite a bit of Unicode handling is improved in Py3.
At least use the *latest* version of 2.7 to get whatever unicode fixes
that have been made to 2.x.
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Terry Jan Reedy
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