Re: BUG #15548: Unaccent does not remove combining diacritical characters

On Tue, Feb 12, 2019 at 02:27:31AM +0530, Ramanarayana wrote:
> I tested the script in python 2.7 and it works perfect. The problem is in
> python 3.7(and may be only in windows as you were not getting the issue)
> and I was getting the following error
>
> UnicodeEncodeError: 'charmap' codec can't encode character '\u0100' in
> position 0: character maps to <undefined>
>
> I went through the python script and found that the stdout encoding is set
> to utf-8 only if python version is <=2.
>
> I have made the same change for python version 3 as well. Please find the
> patch for the same.Let me know if it makes sense

Isn't that because Windows encoding becomes cp1252, utf16 or such?
FWIW, on Debian SID with Python 3.7, I get the correct output, and no
diffs on HEAD. Perhaps it would make sense to use open() on the
different files with encoding='utf-8' to avoid any kind of problems?
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Michael