alert method doesn't support unicode

[paulie-g]

Issue by shula
Saturday Jun 01, 2013 at 15:34 GMT
Originally opened as autopilot-rs#42

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"alert" doesn't work with unicode, but with current local encoding:

running python2.7.3, 64bit, from PythonWin,

autopy.alert.alert("thmhe איציק") # img 1

True

autopy.alert.alert(title=u"Hello, איציק", msg="string from pythonwin")

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1, in
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 7-11: ordinal not in range(128)

... (tried all kinds of unicode/utf - all gives errors) ...

Last test, non-unicode encoding, img 2:

autopy.alert.alert(title=s.encode('cp1255'), msg="string from pythonwin")

True