I did not think that python only used 7 bits, certain encodings may
restrict you to the 7 bits, but the byte type in Python3 should hold 8
bits fine.
As for writing may be the best way to deal with it is to take the
nearest existing Python codec and modify/add to it to handle the
additional characters.
Looking at Python3 your code is wrong as well as you are doing decode on
a str object (in Python2 these were unicode objects), this should be
encode to convert the str into a bytes object. Python2 may have had
decode on a unicode object but that is not good to do as it won't work
in Python3.
Your code should look more like:
return louis.translateString([tableString], inString).encode("cp437")
Michael Whapples
On 14/09/2015 15:34, Bue Vester-Andersen wrote:
Hi Michael,
Thanks for the suggestion.
I hope it won't be necesary to write a new encoder from scratch. I don't
really want to map something to something else. I just want to convince
Python that I am dealing with 8-bit ASCII strings, and not have Python try
to remap them to unicode. It seems that in python, everything is either
unicode or 7-bit ASCII.
Bue
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Emne: [liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: Python, please leave my Braille in peace
If I understand correctly, would writing a custom string encoder help.
Here is a question about writing a custom encoder on stackoverflow
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5819586/how-do-i-write-a-custom-encoding-
in-python-to-clean-up-my-data
Michael Whapples
On 14/09/2015 14:24, Bue Vester-Andersen wrote:
Hi,handle
Please, I hope someone can help me solve this Python problem:
When handling Danish Braille output from Liblouis, I need to not just
7-bit ASCII, but the full 8-bit range, perhaps except \x00 and \x7f (nullcan
and delete).
Actually, the Danish 8 dot character set is built on cp1252, but with some
additional characters that are not defined in cp1252. So, I need to make
Python think that the Braille output is just some 8-bit ASCII of some code
page or other, and then make it keep its hands off my Braille, so that I
output it to a file as it is.position
I have tried code like:
return louis.translateString([tableString], inString).decode("cp437")
Then I get the following error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
...
File "c:\python27\lib\encodings\cp437.py", line 15, in decode
return codecs.charmap_decode(input,errors,decoding_table)
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\x98' in
0:For a description of the software, to download it and links to
ordinal not in range(128)
Anybody has a good idea?
Bue
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