[PyKDE] feature request for eric4

[Hans-Peter Jansen]

Am Samstag, 8. Juli 2006 20:55 schrieb Detlev Offenbach:
> On Saturday 08 July 2006 20:04, Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> > On 08.07.06 16:01:51, Detlev Offenbach wrote:
> > > On Saturday 08 July 2006 13:49, Hans-Peter Jansen wrote:
> > > > Sounds like it's i/o encoding related, and then yes, that could
> > > > make a difference inside eric. If I remember correctly, eric
> > > > sets a different default encoding compared to plain python.
> > > > (see site-packages/sitecustomize.py)
> > >
> > > In the patched sitecustomize.py I only save the reference to the
> > > sys.setdefaultencoding function. In the eric3 IDE the encoding is
> > > set to whatever was configured by the user. In the debugger
> > > client, the default encoding set to a value extracted from the
> > > coding line of the script to be executed. I think, this explains
> > > the difference.
> >
> > Found the get_coding() function and "disabled" it (i.e. returned
> > latin1), this made it possible to debug my application and I found
> > the error.
> >
> > Detlev do you see any gain in having an option to tell the
> > debugclient to return the coding for LANG env variable if a
> > checkbox in the configuration is checked? That way I could have
> > done this without hacking eric's code, but if you think this is too
> > seldom used, I'm not "demanding" such an option ;-)
> >
> > Andreas
>
> I'll add a configuration option to the debugger settings to not set
> the encoding. In that case the debugger will work with whatever
> sys.getdefaultencoding returns.

I'm +1 for this option. It's likely, that encoding problems appear more 
often in the future until everything settled in utf8 land...

Pete