Re: pyw program not displaying unicode characters properly

2012-10-15 Thread Roy Smith
In article , Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > Classically, NNTP did not have "attachments" as seen in MIME email. NNTP (Network News Transport Protocol) and SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) are both just ways of shipping around messages. Neither one really knows about attachments. In bo

Re: pyw program not displaying unicode characters properly

2012-10-14 Thread Alain Ketterlin
Steven D'Aprano writes: > On Sun, 14 Oct 2012 19:19:33 +0200, Alain Ketterlin wrote: > >> Usenet has no attachments. > > *snarfle* > > You almost owed me a new monitor. I nearly sprayed my breakfast all over > it. [...] I owe you nothing, and you can do whatever you want with your breakfast.

Re: pyw program not displaying unicode characters properly

2012-10-14 Thread jjmeric
In article , ian.g.ke...@gmail.com says... > > On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 1:36 PM, jjmeric wrote: > > Is there some sort of defaut font, or is there in Python or Python for > > Windows any ini file where the font used can be seen, eventually changed > > to a more appropriate one with all the requir

Re: pyw program not displaying unicode characters properly

2012-10-14 Thread Ian Kelly
On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 1:36 PM, jjmeric wrote: > Is there some sort of defaut font, or is there in Python or Python for > Windows any ini file where the font used can be seen, eventually changed > to a more appropriate one with all the required glyphs (like Lucida Sans > Unicode has). No, this i

Re: pyw program not displaying unicode characters properly

2012-10-14 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Sun, 14 Oct 2012 19:19:33 +0200, Alain Ketterlin wrote: > Usenet has no attachments. *snarfle* You almost owed me a new monitor. I nearly sprayed my breakfast all over it. "Usenet has no attachments" -- that's like saying that the Web has no advertisements. Maybe the websites you visit ha

Re: pyw program not displaying unicode characters properly

2012-10-14 Thread Roy Smith
In article , MRAB wrote: > Which codepoint is it? What is the codepoint's name? > > Here's how to find out: > > >>> hex(ord("?")) > '0x190' > >>> import unicodedata > >>> unicodedata.name("?") > 'LATIN CAPITAL LETTER OPEN E' Wow, I never knew you could do that. I usually just google for

Re: pyw program not displaying unicode characters properly

2012-10-14 Thread jjmeric
Alain, MRAB Thank you for prompt responses. What they suggest to me is I should look into what font is being used by this Python for Windows program. I am not the programmer, so not idea where to look for. The program settings do not include a choice for display font. The font that used for disp

Re: pyw program not displaying unicode characters properly

2012-10-14 Thread MRAB
On 2012-10-14 17:55, jjmeric wrote: Hi everybody ! Our language lab at INALCO is using a nice language parsing and analysis program written in Python. As you well know a lot of languages use characters that can only be handled by unicode. Here is an example of the problem we have on some Windo

Re: pyw program not displaying unicode characters properly

2012-10-14 Thread Alain Ketterlin
jjmeric writes: > Our language lab at INALCO is using a nice language parsing and analysis > program written in Python. As you well know a lot of languages use > characters that can only be handled by unicode. > > Here is an example of the problem we have on some Windows computers. > In the att

pyw program not displaying unicode characters properly

2012-10-14 Thread jjmeric
Hi everybody ! Our language lab at INALCO is using a nice language parsing and analysis program written in Python. As you well know a lot of languages use characters that can only be handled by unicode. Here is an example of the problem we have on some Windows computers. In the attached screen