unicode woes

[hujhax]

So I have this Python script:

#!/usr/bin/python
# -*- coding: iso-8859-15 -*-


import os
import subprocess


p = subprocess.Popen(['pbcopy'], stdin=subprocess.PIPE)
p.stdin.write("٭")
p.stdin.close()
p.wait()
os.system("osascript -e 'tell application \"System Events\" to keystroke \"v\" using {command down}'")

If I run that from the Terminal, it outputs the funky little star ("٭") to the console.

 

I've tried putting that exact same Python script into a workflow, though, and using the hotkey only ever outputs "٭" instead.

 

What am I doing wrong?

 

=-Peter

 

 

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Edited March 22, 2015 by hujhax

[deanishe]

Alfred uses and expects UTF-8-encoded text only, not ISO-8859-15 (where did you get that from, btw? That's a Windows/Linux encoding, not a Mac one.)

Your pbcopy command won't work as expected either, as it will assume ASCII encoding. You need to add an env argument to your Popen call to specify an encoding: 

env = os.environ.copy()
env['LC_CTYPE'] = 'UTF-8'
subprocess.Popen(..., env=env, ...)

Edited March 23, 2015 by deanishe

[hujhax]

That fixed it, thanks!

 

The emended code:

#!/usr/bin/python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-


import os
import subprocess


env = os.environ.copy()
env['LC_CTYPE'] = 'UTF-8'


p = subprocess.Popen(['pbcopy'], stdin=subprocess.PIPE, env=env)
p.stdin.write("٭")
p.stdin.close()
p.wait()
os.system("osascript -e 'tell application \"System Events\" to keystroke \"v\" using {command down}'")

[hujhax]

Oh, and regarding ISO-8859-15, i just blindly copied that from an example here.

 

[deanishe]

Glad to hear it's working.