[PySide] trouble with special characters in widget.setToolTip()

[Sebastian Elsner | RISE]

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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