[GRASS-dev] [GRASS GIS] #2120: wxgui: encoding errors

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#2120: wxgui: encoding errors
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 Reporter:  mlennert         |       Owner:  grass-dev@…              
     Type:  defect           |      Status:  new                      
 Priority:  normal           |   Milestone:  6.4.4                    
Component:  wxGUI            |     Version:  svn-releasebranch64      
 Keywords:  locale encoding  |    Platform:  Unspecified              
      Cpu:  Unspecified      |  
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Comment(by hcho):

 OK. I solved this issue by creating sitecustomize.py. Python's default
 encoding is 'ascii', so whenever it tries to compare a string (not u"...",
 but "...") with a translated message, which may not be ASCII, it complains
 about different encodings and throws an exception. My sitecustomize.py
 file looks like
 {{{
 import sys
 sys.setdefaultencoding("utf-8")
 }}}
 and I put it in gui/wxpython.

 I'm not sure if it's a good idea to include this file in GRASS SVN because
 it overrides and forces to use UTF-8 encoding. I don't know why the
 encoding setting in Preferences doesn't work. It seems like we cannot
 change the default encoding outside sitecustomize.py.

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