Help with UnicodeEncodeError

[Pako]

I have code:

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if radioBoxSource.GetSelection():
    arrayValue[4]=dynSizer.GetChildren()[1].GetWindow().GetValue()
else:
    arrayValue[5]=dynSizer.GetChildren()[1].GetWindow().GetValue()

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params='/slideshow="'+(arrayValue[4] if arrayValue[7] else arrayValue[5])+'" /ini="'+eg.APPDATA+'\\EventGhost\\"'
return win32api.ShellExecute(
    0, 
    None, 
    tail,
    params,
    head, 
    1
)

If arrayValue[4], arrayValue[5] or eg.APPDATA contains non-ASCII character, I get error:

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UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u0161' in position 42: ordinal not in range(128)

I can't find solving.

Pako

[Bitmonster]

Do you get an UnicodeError if you simply do:

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print eg.APPDATA

?

[Pako]

Do you get an UnicodeError if you simply do: print eg.APPDATA?

No, it works errorless and print params too.
Pako

[Bitmonster]

Normally you get an unicode error if you try to add normal strings that contains characters with an ordinal > 128. But you won't get an error, if these strings are unicode strings. So I guess your GetValue() doesn't return an unicode string (as it should) but a normal string. You can prove this if you try:
print type(dynSizer.GetChildren()[1].GetWindow().GetValue())
It will return <type 'str'> instead of <type 'unicode'> I suppose.
What type of control is it you are querying there? And from where has it gotten its value?

[Bitmonster]

Here is a nice tutorial about unicode in Python:
http://boodebr.org/main/python/all-abou ... nd-unicode
It is big, but unicode is a complicated topic.

[Pako]

What type of control is it you are querying there? And from where has it gotten its value?

Return <type 'unicode'> and control is type and value gotten from eg.DirBrowseButton() and eg.FileBrowseButton().
Pako

[Bitmonster]

Can you attach the full code here, so I can try it out?

[Pako]

Already I have solving:

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import locale
myEncoding = locale.getdefaultlocale()[1]

return win32api.ShellExecute(
    0, 
    None, 
    tail,
    params.encode(myEncoding),
    head, 
    1
)

Thanks !
Pako