Re: [orca-list] Funny error msg

[Steve Holmes <steve holmesgrown com>]

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It sounds like both gnome distros, Dropline and Slacky need to update
their versions of Orca.  I ran into the exact same problem.  I think
the easiest and quickest fix is to download Orca 2.20.3 and install
from source.  That fixed it for me.

On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 07:39:51AM -0500, Willie Walker wrote:
> Plus, we fixed this in the Orca 2.20.3 release and in trunk:
> 
> http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/orca/branches/gnome-2-20/ChangeLog?view=log
> 
> Phew!  Thanks for bringing it up, though.
> 
> Will
> 
> 
> Mike Gorse wrote:
> > Hi Lawrence,
> > 
> > There is a web page somewhere that describes this message.  Python needs 
> > to be told how to interpret these characters.
> > 
> > chnames.py in trunk has the line
> > # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
> > at the top of the file.  Adding this line in should make things work for 
> > you.
> > 
> > Hth,
> > 
> > -- Mike Gorse / AIM:linvortex / http://mgorse.freeshell.org --
> > 
> > On Sat, 26 Jan 2008, Lawrence Baggett wrote:
> > 
> >> Hi all,
> >> I've just installed gnome, via slacky, on a slackware system.  When I run
> >> orca, I get a syntax error.
> >>
> >> "SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character '\xc2' in file
> >> /usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/orca/chnames.py on line 116, but no
> >> encoding declared;"
> >>
> >> I looked at that line 116 and find
> >>
> >> # Translators: this is the spoken word for the character '<A| ' (U+003e)
> >>
> >> Anybody seen this before?
> >>
> >> Many thanks.
> >>
> >> Larry
> >>
> >> _______________________________________________
> >> Orca-list mailing list
> >> Orca-list gnome org
> >> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/orca-list
> >> Visit http://live.gnome.org/Orca for more information on Orca
> >>
> > _______________________________________________
> > Orca-list mailing list
> > Orca-list gnome org
> > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/orca-list
> > Visit http://live.gnome.org/Orca for more information on Orca
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Orca-list mailing list
> Orca-list gnome org
> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/orca-list
> Visit http://live.gnome.org/Orca for more information on Orca

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