Re: [PATCH] Gettexted messages encoding with Python 2.5

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

2007/7/2, John Mandereau <address@hidden>:

> To fix this, we must use ugettext instead of gettext in lilylib.py.
> Unfortunately, this fix implies that each gettexted string must be
> converted from Python internal Unicode to stdout/stderr encoding before
> being written to stdout/stderr.
>
> May I commit and push the following patch, that intends to solve all
> problems above?

I'm not aware of all the issues, but I believe your story. However,
would it be better to define a encoded_write or similar, ie.

 def encoded_write(f, s):
   f.write (s.encode (f.encoding))

and perhaps

 def log(s):
   encoded_write(sys.stderr, s)

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