Question

I’m having some trouble with Python’s raw_input command (Python2.6),
For some reason, the raw_input does not get the converted string that swedify() produces and this giving me a encoding error which i’m aware of, that’s why i made swedify() to begin with.
Here’s what i’m trying to do:

elif cmd in ('help', 'hjälp', 'info'):
    buffert += 'Just nu är programmet relativt begränsat,\nDe funktioner du har att använda är:\n'
    buffert += ' * historik :: skriver ut all din historik\n'
    buffert += ' * ändra <något> :: ändrar något i databasen, följande finns att ändra:\n'
    print swedify(buffert)

This works just fine, it outputs the swedish characters just as i want them to the console.
But when i try to (in the same code, with same \x?? values, print this piece:

core['goalDistance'] = raw_input(swedify('Hur långt i kilometer är ditt mål: '))
core['goalTime'] = raw_input(swedify('Vad är ditt mål i minuter att springa ' +  core['goalDistance'] + 'km på: '))

Then i get this:

C:\Users\Anon>python löp.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "l÷p.py", line 92, in <module>
    core['goalDistance'] = raw_input(swedify('Hur långt i kilometer är ditt mål: '))
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe5' in position 5: ordinal not in range(128)

Now i’ve googled around, found some “solutions” but none of them work, some sad that i have to create a batch script that executes chcp ??? in the beginning, but that’s not a clean solution IMO.

Here is swedify:

def swedify(inp):
    try:
        return inp.decode('utf-8')
    except:
        return '(!Dec:) ' + str(inp)

Any solutions on how to get raw_input to read my return value from swedify()?
i’ve tried from encodings import getencoder, getdecoder and others but nothing for the better.

Answer 1

Solution to a lot of problems:

Edit: C:\Python??\Lib\Site.py
Replace “del sys.setdefaultencoding” with “pass”

Then,
Put this in the top of your code:

sys.setdefaultencoding('latin-1')

The holy grail of fixing the Swedish/non-UTF8 compatible characters.