[stboss@tin.it]

Hi to all you guys,

I found out a strange bug, I think related with unicode. Writing this code I have an error:

    def load_unicode(self):
        self.append(unicode(self.readline()[:-1],'raw-unicode-escape'))
    dispatch[UNICODE] = load_unicode

LookUpError: no codec search functions registered: can't find encoding

googleing around the net I was able to find that this code generate the same error:

"abcd".encode('raw-unicode-escape')

what does it mean? I miss importing some libraries??
Please could explain me where is the bug so I can fix it? (I am a python newby :-)

thanks,
Stefano

[lfd]

Hi stboss@tin.it and welcome to the forum!

Fighting with encoding can give big headaches Let's start from the beginning: what exactly are you willing to do?

The default encoding on the phone is as you probably know UTF-8 . You now need to know what is the encoding applied to the data you want to display in UTF-8: ASCII, UTF8 itself... This, in order to use the right codec for the conversion.

LFD

[stboss@tin.it]

Ok let me better explain my problem.
What I'm really doing is try to port the pickle.py code on my nokia N80. I'm trying to do this because this library is used by a software (mnemosyne, open source flash card software) I'm trying to port on my mobile. The code

    def load_unicode(self):
        self.append(unicode(self.readline()[:-1],'raw-unicode-escape'))
    dispatch[UNICODE] = load_unicode

is the point on the pickle.py library where eveything blow-up!
The pickle code is trying to reloading a txt database (it's just a txt file with a lot of fields). Reading around I fonud that somo other guys had the same problem with python for non x86 architecture; and one of them suggest to use:

"abcd".encode('hex')

to reproduce the error and try to find out the solution. These sentences of code works perfectly on my linux box without importing any library; so I was wondering how to avoid the problem and letting the pickle library to work!
I don't know if the two pieces of code are relate but they give me the same error!

Thanks a lot for your help,
Stefano