Python-docx: Prb with encoding of accents

[kociak]

Hi

I have used this beautiful piece of code and I am really astonished how easy it is to use.
Now, I have a problem. When generating a docx containing accents (french, spanish, german.... any!), wrong characters are printed. I am encoding in UTF8 before fetching the strings to add_run, but this does not work... Is this a bug?

Thanks for the answer

cheers

[scanny]

I'll need something to go on. Can you post a (short) sample of code that exhibits the behavior and I'll see if I can reproduce? python-docx is designed and tested to work with unicode.

[kociak]

You are right

here the simplest example:

-_- coding: utf-8-_-

from docx import Document
from docx.shared import Inches

document = Document()
q=document.add_paragraph(style='CMDPause')

q.add_run(unicode('totoé',errors='replace'))#title
document.save('Debug.docx')

Working on Mac OS 10.8.5
On my original file, where I parse a csv file, I don't need to add the first "coding" comment.
In both cases (this program or my actual program), i need the "unicode()" command otherwise I am getting an error stating that:
"ValueError: All strings must be XML compatible: Unicode or ASCII, no NULL bytes or control characters"

Any idea?

thanks for the help

[scanny]

@kociak this is enough to reproduce it (after imports):

document = Document()
document.add_paragraph(unicode('totoé', errors='replace'))
document.save('Debug.docx')

and this fixes it:

document = Document()
# document.add_paragraph(unicode('totoé', errors='replace'))
document.add_paragraph(unicode('totoé', 'utf-8'))
document.save('Debug.docx')

Unicode is a little tricky to get straight in one's head. I recommend some focused study there, working examples, until you know your way around it. This is a good place to start, although I recommend consulting multiple resources.
https://docs.python.org/2/howto/unicode.html

[kociak]

dear Scanny

sounds like a newby error... thanks for the fix and sorry for not having found it on the web myself!
good luck in keeping developing your great piece of code!

[TrongNguyenVann]

Thank you @scanny very much. It helps me solve the same problem when working with japanese too!