Printing in the Forum

Updated for Snow Leopard 2011-04-21.

The print-server address is printif.inf.ed.ac.uk

You can look up the available printers with the DICE command printers
[tammy]mfourman: printers
if213m0 HP 4100DTN - IF213
if237c0 Canon iRC3080i multi-function device in IF237
if313m0 HP8150DN - IF313
if336c0 Canon iRC3080i multi-function device in IF336
if413m0 HP8150DN - IF413
if435c0 Canon iRC3080i multi-function device in IF435
if536c0 Canon iRC3580i multi-function device in IF536


You should install and select the Canon iR C3080/3480/3580 PPD Canon UFR_II_V200_MacOSX_us_EN.dmg File for Mac OS X for the multi-function (scan-print-copy) Canon devices.

You probably already have the HP drivers. If the configuration is not attached to the printer, you can print it using the printer's menu buttons.

Python and UTF-8 on OSX: UnicodeEncodeError

an acute problem

UnicodeEncodeError:
'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe9'

I'm on a Mac Air with the latest Snow Leopard (10.6.2). I'm using Python 2.6.4 with unicode strings. I can't print appliqué !?

I tried adding
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
at the head of my Python script, but I still get this complaint.

Solution

The encoding used for standard input, output, and standard error can be specified by setting the PYTHONIOENCODING environment variable before running the interpreter.

The value should be a string in the form <encoding> or <encoding>:<errorhandler>. The encoding part specifies the encoding’s name, e.g. utf-8 or latin-1; the optional errorhandler part specifies what to do with characters that can’t be handled by the encoding, and should be one of “error”, “ignore”, or “replace”.

export PYTHONIOENCODING=utf-8

does the trick.

– or you could just add this setting to your environment file: ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist