[wingide-users] Confused about OS Commands tool box display of unicode data.

[Wingware Support]

Barry Mossman wrote:
>
> Hi I have read some data from text file encoded with utf-8 as follows:
>
> with codecs.open(filename='playcounts.txt', mode='r', 
> encoding='utf-8') as scrobble_file:
>
> data = scrobble_file.readline()
>
> I then print the data with a print statement.
>
> If I do this in the debugger, or run the program externally outside 
> the IDE, the displayed output is as expected.
>
> If I run the program using the OS Comands tool box the print statement 
> fails with “'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe1' in position 
> 6: ordinal not in range(128)”
>
> Is there something I need to configure with regard to the OS Commands 
> toolbox.
>

You probably need to change the I/O Encoding field in the OS Command's 
definition. You should also have a Debugger > I/O > OS Commands Encoding 
preference (third one on that prefs page).

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