QString probs...

[alexandernst]

I have that piece of code

from PyQt4 import *
from PyQt4.QtCore import *
a = QString("攢ð")
print unicode(a)

from PyQt4 import *
from PyQt4.QtCore import *
a = QString("攢ð")
print unicode(a)

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this won't print the same chars (攢ð)...
If I do "print unicode(a).encode("utf-8") I won't get 攢ð, instead of that I'll get exactly the same thing as the another print.

What should I do?

[Lykurg]

supposing your file encoding is utf8, use

a = QString::fromUtf8("攢ð");

a = QString::fromUtf8("攢ð");

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[alexandernst]

That works great in console, however, I think that this wasn't what I was looking for.
I have a QTextEdit and I get the text with .toPlainText()
Then I have to pass that string to str() but it will fail with that error:

UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 0-2: ordinal not in range(128)

Any ideas? Maybe .toPlainText() return unicode and not utf-8 ?

[franz]

Pass the string with QString::toUtf8().

[alexandernst]

msg = QString.fromUtf8(self.ui.inputWidget.toPlainText() )
message = str(QString.toUtf8(msg))
message.content.encode("utf-8") << This will fail with UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xef in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)

[Lykurg]

Maybe .toPlainText() return unicode and not utf-8 ?

It's utf8, because Qt handles all as utf by default. But of what str function are you talking about? And what type is message? But anyway maybe QString::toLocal8Bit() will help you.

[alexandernst]

Lets see...

I get the text from the QTextEdit widget this way:

msg = QString.fromUtf8(self.ui.inputWidget.toPlainText() )

So, "msg" is a QString utf8 encoded, right?

Next, I want to get only the string from that QString object, so I do

message = str(QString.toUtf8(msg))

Next, I have another method that receives that "message" string and tries to do .encode("utf-8") and there's where my app fails, because message.encode("utf-8") says that "ascii" codec can't decode byte.......

And that were I'm stuck.

[alexandernst]

Ok... lets make it even easier...

I'll just get the text this way:

msg = self.ui.inputWidget.toPlainText()

So, "msg" will be a QString encoded in utf8. How can I convert that string to python str? (without loosing data)

EDIT: I would like to have the text in a python str, so, whenever I do "str(message)" or "message.encode("utf-8")" it will work without problems.

[alexandernst]

Nah, forget my last 2 posts.
I just want to get that text from the QTextEdit and be able to do "print message.encode("utf-8")" and see exactly what I typed. Is that possible?