I cannot reproduce it here.  You can see in the attached image I am running 
without any issues both saved and unsaved files with greek names.

Is your Windows locale set to Russian?
Are you able to run scripts with russian names and/or paths with the standard 
Python interpreter?

Possible solutions:

a)  You may have to do the following (here it works without that, since 
PyScripter passes Unicode filenames to Python):

If you look the PyScripter help file in the topic "Encoded Python
Source Files" (last paragraph) it tells you how to configure Python to
support other encodings by modifying the site.py file.  This file is
in the lib subdirectory of the Python installation directory.  Find
the function setencoding and make sure that the support locale aware
default string encodings is  on. (see below)

def setencoding():
  """Set the string encoding used by the Unicode implementation.  The
  default is 'ascii', but if you're willing to experiment, you can
  change this."""
  encoding = "ascii" # Default value set by _PyUnicode_Init()
  if 1:  <<<<<<<<<<<<<-------------------------------------
      # Enable to support locale aware default string encodings.
      import locale
      loc = locale.getdefaultlocale ()
      if loc[1]:
          encoding = loc[1]
  if 0:
      # Enable to switch off string to Unicode coercion and implicit
      # Unicode to string conversion.
      encoding = "undefined"
  if encoding != "ascii":
      # On Non-Unicode builds this will raise an AttributeError...
      sys.setdefaultencoding (encoding) # Needs Python Unicode
build !

b) Modify the Russian translation so that new modules are created with English 
names.
-  Get Poedit (google for it)
-  Open default.po in the russian locale with PoEdit
-  Find string "module" and delete the translation
-  Save the file.  (PoEdit automatically compiles the default.po into 
default.mo)

Now when you create a new modules you should see English names.

Please report here the outcome of the above.

I think the most likely cause is the Windows locale.

Could you please also test with Python 3.x and report back whether you have the 
same issue?

working versions of "A" and "B".
I tried to reproduce the same situation on Virtual PC with Windows XP.
python 2.6.5 - bug is present
python 3.1 - no error

Have you checked the Windows locale?  Is it Russian?
Have you tried to modify site.py?

Yes, I changed the file site.py after this work was ok
and Virual PC and on my laptop with Windows Vista.
Windows locale is Russian.

Issue 429 has been merged into this issue.

Issue 444 has been merged into this issue.

Changing site.py is workaround, but not solution for issue.

Thank you very much! Very helpful. Change one line site.py changed condition,
and it worked.

Issue 535 has been merged into this issue.

Issue 544 has been merged into this issue.

Issue 585 has been merged into this issue.

Issue 587 has been merged into this issue.

Hi,
I use pyscripter 2.4.3.0, I use the method to modify file in python 2.7 in  
Issue 427 like below:

def setencoding():
"""Set the string encoding used by the Unicode implementation. The
    default is 'ascii', but if you're willing to experiment, you can
    change this."""
    encoding = "ascii" # Default value set by _PyUnicode_Init()
    if 1: <<<<<<<<<<<<<-------------------------------------Change the '0'  
to '1'
    # Enable to support locale aware default string encodings.
    import locale
    loc = locale.getdefaultlocale ()
    if loc[1]:
    encoding = loc[1]
    if 0:
    # Enable to switch off string to Unicode coercion and implicit
    # Unicode to string conversion.
    encoding = "undefined"
    if encoding != "ascii":
    # On Non-Unicode builds this will raise an AttributeError...
    sys.setdefaultencoding (encoding) # Needs Python Unicode
    build !

In python 2.7 (the same as python 2.6), when I am debugging, do not  
prompt: UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in  
position 12-13: ordinal not in range(128) now, but the debug behaviour is  
odd, it can't break in the breakpoint, But the "Run to Cursor position"  
(also F4) button can use only once.

In Inssue 587 I say in python 2.6 the debug behaviour is odd, because I  
already change the file site.py in python2.6.


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I have reopened 587

The path to .py file must not have any characters except English.

I have the same issue, what I need to do for avoid him ?