help(rssdler) UnicodeEncodeError

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As of now (r95), import rssdler, help(rssdler) works. Why this is the case
is unclear, but the less-like behavior is broken (issue 16) and may be
related to this working in some circumstances. When the workaround to the
less-like behavior issue is implemented, a UnicodeEncodError will be raised.

As it stands, some unicode characters in the docstrings will cause a
UnicodeEncodeError exception to be raised when doing help() on an object
containing said unicode characters. Attached is a test case. Note that I've
tried specifying "# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-" for the module, but that fails.
The error occurs whether the character is specified literally, e.g. ℕ or
with a unicode escape sequence, e.g. \u2215 .

Original issue reported on code.google.com by lostnihi...@gmail.com on 5 Feb 2008 at 5:06

Attachments:

• unicodeDocError.py

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looks like this was supposed to have been fixed:

http://bugs.python.org/issue1065986

Original comment by lostnihi...@gmail.com on 5 Feb 2008 at 6:06

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Original comment by lostnihi...@gmail.com on 6 Feb 2008 at 10:07

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