Python program displaying messages in different language than english

Question

I have written a simple python program in version 2.7.6 (32 bit). But when i display any message in a message box it comes in some weird language. The code is below

import Tkinter as tk
import win32com.client
import pythoncom
import ctypes
import sys
import glob
import sys
import os

MessageBox = ctypes.windll.user32.MessageBoxW 

if __name__ == "__main__":
   MessageBox(None, "Hello", 'Window title',0)

and this is the output

error output

this is a sample program i have written just to show my problem — Sandeep Bhat
– Sandeep Bhat, Commented Dec 26, 2013 at 10:37
i am still not sure if it is the installer problem from where i have downloaded. the url i downloaded was from python.org/download/releases/2.7.6 — Sandeep Bhat
– Sandeep Bhat, Commented Dec 26, 2013 at 10:41
Its not an installer problem; you need to send a unicode string otherwise your normal string will be interpreted incorrectly. — Burhan Khalid
– Burhan Khalid, Commented Dec 26, 2013 at 10:46

Burhan Khalid · Accepted Answer · 2013-12-26 10:51:15Z

10

You need to send a unicode string; because you are using the unicode version of message box MessageBoxW, if you want to send normal ascii strings you need to use MessgeBoxA

ctypes.windll.user32.MessageBoxA(None, 'Hello', 'Window title', 0) # or
ctypes.windll.user32.MessageBoxW(None, u'Hello', u'Window title', 0)

edited Dec 26, 2013 at 10:51

answered Dec 26, 2013 at 10:43

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4 Comments

Sandeep Bhat Over a year ago

that did work. but i never had to do this when i had installed python 3.3. so is this different in 2.7 and 3.3?\

Burhan Khalid Over a year ago

In Python3, all strings are unicode objects that's why it worked.

Eryk Sun Over a year ago

You're supposed to set the function pointer's argtypes to use c_wchar_p. Then you can call ctypes.set_conversion_mode('utf-8', 'strict'), or whatever encoding you prefer, to configure automatic conversion of byte strings to unicode. set_conversion_mode is only in 2.x ctypes. The default conversion mode is strict ASCII.

JinSnow Over a year ago

what's the "None" stand for?

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