Python 3.2.2 Mac installer version doesn't accept multibyte character in interactive mode

[ats]

BPO	13759
Nosy	@ronaldoussoren, @ned-deily, @bitdancer, @willingc

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assignee = 'https://github.com/ronaldoussoren'
closed_at = <Date 2016-06-23.05:00:46.069>
created_at = <Date 2012-01-11.07:36:55.593>
labels = ['OS-mac', 'type-bug']
title = "Python 3.2.2 Mac installer version doesn't accept multibyte character in interactive mode"
updated_at = <Date 2016-06-24.14:18:38.582>
user = 'https://bugs.python.org/ats'

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actor = 'willingc'
assignee = 'ronaldoussoren'
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closed_date = <Date 2016-06-23.05:00:46.069>
closer = 'willingc'
components = ['macOS']
creation = <Date 2012-01-11.07:36:55.593>
creator = 'ats'
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issue_num = 13759
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priority = 'normal'
resolution = 'works for me'
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status = 'closed'
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url = 'https://bugs.python.org/issue13759'
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[ats]

I installed Python 3.2.2 on Macintosh(Snow Leopard), by using installer on python.org.
In interactive mode, it does not accept multibyte character. When I type Japanese character on it, it changes to ?.
I tried to make Python 3.2.2 by using tar ball on the same machine. I can type Japanese character in interactive mode.
I guess it's because of some minor issue, such as compile option is different etc.

Thanks in advance.

[ned-deily]

Can you give the exact steps of what you did to demonstrate the problem? Also, there are two OS X installers for Python 3.2.2. Which one did you install? (The two lines of version information when starting Python is enough to identify which one it is.)

[ats]

The procedure is following.

1. type "python" in the terminal.app to launch interactive mode.
2. type 'あ' in it.

And I use Mac OS X 64-bit/32-bit Installer (3.2.2) for Mac OS X 10.6 and 10.7.
Here is the first 2 lines of initial message.

Python 3.2.2 (v3.2.2:137e45f15c0b, Sep 3 2011, 17:28:59)
[GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5666) (dot 3)] on darwin

thanks :-)

[ned-deily]

I am not familiar with the Japanese input methods available in OS X. But using copy and paste with an US UTF-8 locale, it seems to work. Perhaps there is a different locale in effect?

Python 3.2.2 (v3.2.2:137e45f15c0b, Sep  3 2011, 17:28:59) 
[GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5666) (dot 3)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> x = 'あ'
>>> print(x)
あ
>>> print(ord(x))
12354
>>> import unicodedata
>>> unicodedata.name(x)
'HIRAGANA LETTER A'
>>> print('%x' % ord(x))
3042
>>> import locale
>>> locale.getlocale()
('en_US', 'UTF-8')

[ats]

Thank you for testing on your environment :-).
I'll make sure the difference that caused the issue.

I changed the status to pending. I'll come back to this issue when I find the crue.

Thanks anyway !

[ronaldoussoren]

To reproduce this issue you could use the "Unicode Hex Input" input source (enable this in the Language & Text prefpane, switch between sources either using CMD-space or the menu bar icon).

I can "あ" by keeping ALT pressed and typing 3042.

This works fine with a self-built version of 3.2 (tip of tree), I haven't tested the 3.2 binary installer (yet).

[willingc]

Ned, Closing as an out of date issue.

[bitdancer]

This isn't out of date, it appears that it was not a bug in the first place, but the OP never got back to us with confirmation one way or the other.

[willingc]

R. David, Fair enough. Thanks for pointing out the difference between 'out of date' and 'works for me'.