Re: [orca-list] Funny error msg

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

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
> >
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