Ascii Issue

This is all a learning experience for me so the answer may be obvious and I am just missing it.

If I create a list as such:

LangQuestion = [
    inquirer.List('lang',
                  message="Select Language",
                  choices=['English', 'Français', 'Deutsche'],
              ),# ç
]

answers = inquirer.prompt(LangQuestion)

pprint(answers)

It breaks due to UnicodeDecodeError: ‘ascii’ codec can’t decode byte 0xc3 in position 4: ordinal not in range(128)

However anywhere else in my project where I reference Français and does not involve using inquirer it works fine. Is there a way to expand the ascii to accommodate such characters? I thought UTF-8 would cover all of it to begin with but again this is outside of my realm of knowledge.

Thank you for your time!

[magmax]

You are right, but this problem only happens in python 2, and it has a year and a half life time. In addition, Inquirer is about user’s input. So I think this is Inquirer responsibility. Anyway, this makes it easy for any developer to use Inquirer, even more if they use the JSON configuration format.

I think this solution is “good enough”. Maybe it is not the best one, but will work in most common cases.

[AuHau]

Hmm looking at your solution, I would quiet object that it is a good one. I don’t think library should do such operations, it should be the user’s responsibility to provide valid input, which in this case means properly decoded strings in case of Python 2. What if for example, somebody would use a different encoding, I know that in these days it is not really common to use something else then UTF-8, but it is a possibility…

But it is your call 😉