Re: Foreign Character Problems In Python 2.5 and Tkinter

2007-10-14 Thread Juha S.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > As a noob I've struggled a bit, but basically what I've come up with > is => if the information is strings and especially strings stored in > any style of list/dict, it takes a loop to write the lines to file > myfile[ i ] + '\n' to keep each line for Python I/O purposes.

Re: Foreign Character Problems In Python 2.5 and Tkinter

2007-10-13 Thread nickel_and_dime_2death
On Oct 13, 5:22 pm, "Juha S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks! Opening and saving the file with the iso-8859-1 codec seems to > handle the characters correctly. Now the only problem left are the > missing newlines in the output file. I tried googling for the iso code > for newline and entering

Re: Foreign Character Problems In Python 2.5 and Tkinter

2007-10-13 Thread Juha S.
Thanks! Opening and saving the file with the iso-8859-1 codec seems to handle the characters correctly. Now the only problem left are the missing newlines in the output file. I tried googling for the iso code for newline and entering it in a Python string as '\x0A' but it doesn't work in the ou

Re: Foreign Character Problems In Python 2.5 and Tkinter

2007-10-13 Thread Janne Tuukkanen
Sat, 13 Oct 2007 16:13:21 +0300, Juha S. kirjoitti: > 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. > file = codecs.open(filename, 'r', 'utf-8', 'ignor

Re: Foreign Character Problems In Python 2.5 and Tkinter

2007-10-13 Thread Juha S.
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, filen

Re: Foreign Character Problems In Python 2.5 and Tkinter

2007-10-13 Thread Janne Tuukkanen
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

Foreign Character Problems In Python 2.5 and Tkinter

2007-10-13 Thread Juha S.
Hi, I'm writing a small text editor type application with Python 2.5 and Tkinter. I'm using the Tk text widget for input and output, and the 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 wh