[Bug 352493] [NEW] ipython does not handle Unicode input correctly

[Marius Gedminas]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: ipython

Try this:

0. Make sure your locale encoding is specified correctly, i.e. 'locale charmap' in shell prints UTF-8.
1. Start ipython
2. Type an expression 'len(u"č")' where č is the Unicode character U+010D LATIN SMALL LETTER C WITH CARON

You should get back the answer 1.  What you actually get is 2.

If you try the experiment with 'python' instead of 'ipython', you'll get
the correct answer.

This trips up people who use IPython and think they're dealing with
Unicode strings that they see on screen, when IPython silently
misinterprets them as ISO-8859-1 instead of using the locale encoding.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
Package: ipython 0.8.4-1
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=/home/username/bin:/home/username/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=lt_LT.UTF-8
 LC_CTYPE=lt_LT.UTF-8
SourcePackage: ipython
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-14-server i686

** Affects: ipython (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: apport-bug

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ipython does not handle Unicode input correctly
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