Unicode is tricky, it bites me every time. This works:
########################
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
import sys
from PyQt4 import QtGui
quotationMark = u'\u201c'
myText = u'special charactes cause headaches: {0}'.format(quotationMark)
print myText # this prints the crrect special character (quotation mark)
app = QtGui.QApplication([])
w = QtGui.QWidget()
w.setToolTip(myText) # this just ends up displaying a "å" character
w.show()
w.raise_()
sys.exit(app.exec_())
#########################
Please note, the .py file actually has to be saved/encoded as utf-8. You
need to do this via your editor's save/convert function.
On 03/02/2016 07:20 AM, Frank Rueter | OHUfx wrote:
Hi guys,
I've been reading up on unicode and character encoding a bit today and
just when I thought I had a vague idea how it all works I ran into
this problem:
I am retrieving unicode from a website, which I need to format a
little, then display as a widget's tooltip.
When I print out my formatted string I get the special characters I
expect, but when I use the same string as a tooltip, it displays a "å"
character instead.
Here is a screen shot of what I'm seeing:
And below is a simple test that shows my problem.
Can somebody please explain to me what is going on here and how I
should be handle this properly?
Cheers,
frank
import sys
from PySide import QtGui
quotationMark = u'\u201c'
myText = 'special charactes cause headaches:
{}'.format(quotationMark.encode('utf-8'))
print myText # this prints the crrect special character (quotation
mark)
app = QtGui.QApplication([])
w = QtGui.QWidget()
w.setToolTip(myText) # this just ends up displaying a "å" character
w.show()
w.raise_()
sys.exit(app.exec_())
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