copy and paste of text into Python console produces chinese

[richard aras]

On mac OSX 10.12.4, copying and pasting text from other applications yields Chinese characters rather than roman and therefore produces Python errors.

Kicad version 70c961f

[richard aras (raras)]

Example:===========================
Application: kicad
Version: (2017-04-07 revision 70c961f)-master, release build
Libraries: wxWidgets 3.0.2
           libcurl/7.51.0 SecureTransport zlib/1.2.8
Py 0.9.8
Python 2.7.10 (default, Feb 6 2017, 23:53:20)
[GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 8.0.0 (clang-800.0.34)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
Startup script executed: /Users/richard2/Library/Preferences/kicad/PyShell_pcbnew_startup.py
偁䥈
  File "<input>", line 1
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Applications/Kicad/kicad.app/Contents/Frameworks/python/site-packages/wx-3.0-osx_cocoa/wx/py/shell.py", line 562, in OnKeyDown
    self.processLine()
  File "/Applications/Kicad/kicad.app/Contents/Frameworks/python/site-packages/wx-3.0-osx_cocoa/wx/py/shell.py", line 886, in processLine
    self.push(command)
  File "/Applications/Kicad/kicad.app/Contents/Frameworks/python/site-packages/wx-3.0-osx_cocoa/wx/py/shell.py", line 976, in push
    self.more = self.interp.push(command)
  File "/Applications/Kicad/kicad.app/Contents/Frameworks/python/site-packages/wx-3.0-osx_cocoa/wx/py/interpreter.py", line 80, in push
    more = self.more = self.runsource(source)
  File "/Applications/Kicad/kicad.app/Contents/Frameworks/python/site-packages/wx-3.0-osx_cocoa/wx/py/interpreter.py", line 90, in runsource
    more = InteractiveInterpreter.runsource(self, source)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/code.py", line 79, in runsource
    self.showsyntaxerror(filename)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/code.py", line 139, in showsyntaxerror
    map(self.write, list)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/code.py", line 171, in write
    sys.stderr.write(data)
  File "/Applications/Kicad/kicad.app/Contents/Frameworks/python/site-packages/wx-3.0-osx_cocoa/wx/py/shell.py", line 1247, in writeErr
    self.write(text)
  File "/Applications/Kicad/kicad.app/Contents/Frameworks/python/site-packages/wx-3.0-osx_cocoa/wx/py/shell.py", line 1001, in write
    self.AddText(text)
  File "/Applications/Kicad/kicad.app/Contents/Frameworks/python/site-packages/wx-3.0-osx_cocoa/wx/stc.py", line 2041, in AddText
    return _stc.StyledTextCtrl_AddText(*args, **kwargs)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe5 in position 4: ordinal not in range(128)

Better release information:======================================

Platform: Mac OS X (Darwin 16.5.0 x86_64), 64 bit, Little endian, wxMac
- Build Info -
wxWidgets: 3.0.2 (UTF-8,STL containers,compatible with 2.8)
Boost: 1.61.0
Curl: 7.43.0
KiCad - Compiler: Clang 7.3.0 with C++ ABI 1002
        Settings: USE_WX_GRAPHICS_CONTEXT=ON
                  USE_WX_OVERLAY=ON
                  KICAD_SCRIPTING=ON
                  KICAD_SCRIPTING_MODULES=ON
                  KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON=ON
                  KICAD_SCRIPTING_ACTION_MENU=ON
                  BUILD_GITHUB_PLUGIN=ON
                  KICAD_USE_OCE=ON

[David Pearce (halzia)]

0xe5 is not unicode, but could be extended ascii "å"

[xzcvczx (xzcvczx)]

please search for duplicates before making new bugs