Thanks for the suggestions but I am still stuck.

I have in the code
description = as_unicode(description)
key = as_unicode(snip.trigger)
_vim.command(as_unicode("let g:current_ulti_dict['{key}'] =
'{val}'".format(key=key, val=description)))

but when trying on the snippets I mentioned before I get the error:
_vim.command(as_unicode("let g:current_ulti_dict['{key}'] =
'{val}'".format(key=key, val=description)))
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe2' in
position 4: ordinal not in range(128)

I may try to ask this on the vim list since someone there might have an
idea on how to solve this (if it is possible to solve this at all).

Jorge




On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 12:49 AM, SirVer <email address hidden> wrote:

> > Any idea how I can solve this? It works fine with regular chars.
>
> International characters are very much regular chars :). We had plenty
> of bug reports about them before in UltiSnips, so it is a very good
> thing that you added tests for them now.
>
> The problem here is that you are trying to format a bytes string with a
> unicode object. Something along these lines should work:
>
>     _vim.command(as_unicode("let g:current_ulti_dict['{key}'] =
> '{val}'").format(key=snip.trigger, val=description))
>
> This should help with this problem.
>
> Also think about what happens here if val or the trigger contain a " or
> a '. A test case for this might be indicated as well.
>
> > So when I define a snippet as above the dict would be {'testâ',
> "abc123"} but I don't know how to define a snippet with description on the
> test file.
> The code that spilts this tuple is in test.py, line 281. you can define a
> snippet as
> ("trigger", "content", "description", "options"), but you can leave out
> descriptions and/or options.
>
> Hope that helps.
>
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> report.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1171227
>
> Title:
>   Add function do return a vim dictionary with current snippets
>
> Status in UltiSnips - The Ultimate Snippet Solution for Vim:
>   Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
>   Hi Sirver,
>
>   I wrote two small functions, one in vimL UltiSnips_SnippetDict which
> calls another function in python
>   list_snippets_dict which is similar to list_snippets but just returns a
> vim dictionary with the snippets and description.
>
>   The purpose of this is to be able to list the matching snippets via a
> pump instead of in the bottom of the window.
>   For this the user would need to install two plugins from Ingo Karkat:
>  SnippetComplete and SnippetCompleteSnipMate.
>
>   I will email the author of those plugins to see if he can change one of
> them so it will support ultisnips
>   (the only change will be to replace the line
>
>   let l:snippets = GetSnipsInCurrentScope()
>   by the line
>   let l:snippets = UltiSnips_SnippetDict()
>
>   so I don't antecipate a big problem there.
>
>   I tried to record a short video showing the functionality:
>   http://youtu.be/Cm7lzcS7SWM
>
>   Please accept the patch or let me know issues you see with it.
>   If you decide to accept and once I hear from Ingo I will also add
> additional information to the documentation so the users can use this
> functionality.
>
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