bernhard: thuban ChangeLog,1.757,1.758

[Bernhard Reiter]

On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 12:42:34PM +0100, Bernhard Herzog wrote:
> Bernhard Reiter <bernhard at intevation.de> writes:
> 
> > If you use "ascii" which is the default calling .encode() will use,
> > then it also bombs becaue of the latin1 characters in the about dialog.
> 
> We should use the the "replace" error handler for the encode method.
> Even if we know the target encoding, we have no guarantee at all that it
> supports all the characters we need.  With "replace" we won't get an
> exception and the user will see a "?" for characters that couldn't be
> converted.  not ideal, but there's not much we can do about it.

I thought that also and tried it, but I did get an exception.
I might have done it in the wrong way, though. 
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