Unicode with ColumnSorterMixin

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Hi !!

I'm using a ListCtrl in Report mode with a ColumnSorterMixin, as in the wxPython-demo !
The problem it's that i use row values with unicode strings and ColumnSorterMixin fails and dump this
when i try to column-sort-them:

if type(item1) == type('') or type(item2) == type(''):
  File
"/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/wx-2.6-gtk2-unicode/wx/lib/mixins/listctrl.py",
line 132, in __ColumnSorter cmpVal = locale.strcoll(str(item1),
str(item2)) UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character
u'\xed' in position 10: ordinal not in range(128)

What can i do ?

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Hi Felix,

Felix wrote:

Hi !!

I'm using a ListCtrl in Report mode with a ColumnSorterMixin, as in the wxPython-demo !
The problem it's that i use row values with unicode strings and ColumnSorterMixin fails and dump this
when i try to column-sort-them:

if type(item1) == type('') or type(item2) == type(''):
File
"/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/wx-2.6-gtk2-unicode/wx/lib/mixins/listctrl.py",
line 132, in __ColumnSorter cmpVal = locale.strcoll(str(item1),
str(item2)) UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character
u'\xed' in position 10: ordinal not in range(128)

What can i do ?

It looks like your encoding is set to the default "ascii", I don't use Unicode but support French and German by using ISO8859 and for that to work I do the following at the beginning of my wx.App script.

import sys
if hasattr(sys, "frozen"): #Py2Exe does not run Site.py
    sys.setdefaultencoding('iso-8859-1')
else: #The Python interpreter needs to reload the function
    reload(sys)
    sys.setdefaultencoding('iso-8859-1')
    del sys.setdefaultencoding

I also do this for gettext support and to make controls such as the wx.lib.masked to work correctly.

import locale
import gettext
gettext.install('yourapp', os.path.join(os.getcwd(), 'locale'), unicode=0)
localeDir = os.path.join(os.getcwd(), 'locale')
langEn = gettext.translation('yourapp', localeDir, languages=['en'])
langFr = gettext.translation('yourapp', localeDir, languages=['fr'])
langDe = gettext.translation('yourapp', localeDir, languages=['de'])

locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, '')

Hope this helps
Werner

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Great !! It works ! Thanks so mucho Werner !

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On Wed, 28 Jun 2006 19:20:04 +0200 "Werner F. Bruhin" <werner.bruhin@free.fr> wrote:

It looks like your encoding is set to the default "ascii", I don't use
Unicode but support French and German by using ISO8859 and for that to
work I do the following at the beginning of my wx.App script.