Run Python script as Programs dictionary return about UnicodeEncodeError.

[scillidan]

OS: Windows 10
Version: GoldenDict 1.5.0 (Protable)

I add ety-python into Programs of GoldenDict as dictionary. It's data come from .tsv of http://etym.org/.

The command line is ety -r -t "%GDWORD%", it return some errors when I search some word liked apple, aerodynamically:

Query error: The program has returned exit code 1. Traceback (most recent call last): File "\\?\C:\Users\scillidan\scoop\persist\python39\Scripts\ety-script.py", line 33, in <module> sys.exit(load_entry_point('ety==1.4.0', 'console_scripts', 'ety')()) File "C:\Users\scillidan\scoop\apps\python39\current\lib\site-packages\ety-1.4.0-py3.9.egg\ety\cli.py", line 42, in cli print(output.strip()) UnicodeEncodeError: 'gbk' codec can't encode character '\u1f00' in position 112: illegal multibyte sequence

I try it in cmd.exe, ety -r -t aerodynamically return:

aerodynamically (English)
├── -ally (English)
└── aerodynamic (English)
    ├── aero- (English)
    │   └── ἀήρ (Ancient Greek (to 1453))
    └── dynamic (English)
        └── dynamique (French)
            └── δυναμικός (Ancient Greek (to 1453))
                └── δύναμις (Ancient Greek (to 1453))
                    └── δύναμαι (Ancient Greek (to 1453))

I have similar problems when I used other python cli liked etym-cli in GoldenDict🤔. And node cli thes work well.

[wildekat]

Your version of Python seems to be set up to automatically convert things to GBK on output:

$ PYTHONIOENCODING=GBK python3 -c "print('ἀ')"
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
UnicodeEncodeError: 'gbk' codec can't encode character '\u1f00' in position 0: illegal multibyte sequence

However, I don't see how that could be GoldenDict's fault - there's just no way GD would ever set PYTHONIOENCODING or any of its equivalents.
When in cmd.exe, does ety still work when redirected to a file: ety -r -t aerodynamically >test_redir ??

[scillidan]

I got the same output in cmd.exe with python39 and python310.

D:\home>ety.exe -r -t aerodynamically >test_redir
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "\\?\C:\Users\scillidan\scoop\persist\python39\Scripts\ety-script.py", line 33, in <module>
    sys.exit(load_entry_point('ety', 'console_scripts', 'ety')())
  File "d:\cacher\goldendict_ety-python\ety\cli.py", line 42, in cli
    print(output.strip())
UnicodeEncodeError: 'gbk' codec can't encode character '\u1f00' in position 112: illegal multibyte sequence

I checked my environment, and I didn't seem to set any environment values except for where python.exe and Scripts/ are.

I should test it on wsl2 later, but I uninstalled it before and need to reinstall it.

[scillidan]

I test it on wsl2. It works well on them.

And get same errors on newly installed Windows10 in VirtualBox, when redirected to a file:

So weird.

[scillidan]

It's not a GoldenDict's problem, which prevents me from wasting more time in the wrong direction.
Thanks for GPT-3.5's help!
For my purposes only, the problem is solved.