to_clipboard doesn't support unicode

[Winand]

to_clipboard uses ascii encoding. And it cannot be changed.

>>> import pandas as pd
>>> pd.__version__
'0.17.0'
>>> pd.DataFrame(["Hello world"]).to_clipboard()
>>> pd.DataFrame(["Здравствуй, мир"]).to_clipboard()
...
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 22-31: ordinal not in range(128)
>>> pd.DataFrame(["Здравствуй, мир"]).to_clipboard(encoding="utf-8")
...
TypeError: to_string() got an unexpected keyword argument 'encoding'

Had to use part of to_clipboard source, where it exports dataframe to StringIO buffer, then put it to clipboard with Qt.

[jreback]

this is fixed by #9693
if you want to give that a try and report

[jreback]

pls report pd.show_versions() for the record as well.

[Winand]

INSTALLED VERSIONS

commit: None
python: 3.4.3.final.0
python-bits: 64
OS: Windows
OS-release: 7
machine: AMD64
processor: Intel64 Family 6 Model 58 Stepping 9, GenuineIntel
byteorder: little
LC_ALL: None
LANG: en

pandas: 0.17.0
nose: 1.3.7
pip: 7.1.2
setuptools: 18.4
Cython: 0.23.4
numpy: 1.9.3
scipy: 0.16.1
statsmodels: None
IPython: 4.0.0
sphinx: 1.3.1
patsy: 0.4.0
dateutil: 2.4.2
pytz: 2015.6
blosc: 1.2.8
bottleneck: 1.0.0
tables: 3.2.2
numexpr: 2.4.4
matplotlib: 1.5.0rc3
openpyxl: None
xlrd: 0.9.4
xlwt: None
xlsxwriter: 0.7.7
lxml: 3.4.4
bs4: 4.4.1
html5lib: None
httplib2: None
apiclient: None
sqlalchemy: 1.0.9
pymysql: None
psycopg2: None

[Winand]

Yep, updated clipboard.py works fine here.

[jreback]

dupe of #9263