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

[Frank Rueter | OHUfx]

Hm, I'm not having much luck. Apparently my tooltip and default font is 
Lucida Grande when running the code inside Wing, which should be able to 
display quotation marks. I tried changing the font to Verdana, as that 
is what my host application is using (where I get the corrcet 
characters), but to no avail.
I tried using QtGui.QToolTip.setFont() and QApplication().setFont() but 
I was still left with the wrong characters.

Any more ideas?

Cheers,
frank


On 3/03/16 1:45 pm, Frank Rueter | OHUfx wrote:
> Thanks guys.
>
> >>That would imply that your tooltip uses a different default font.
> Aha, that makes perfect sense, thank you!
> I'm currently on OSX using Wing as my IDE. When I ran this code inside 
> a host application, it worked fine (because it changes the default font).
> I will verify that though before moving on. Text encoding/decoding 
> always confuses me (I hardly have to deal with it, so there is no 
> routine) and I want to get it right this time.
>
> Cheers,
> frank
>
> On 03/03/2016 06:26 AM, Tim Roberts wrote:
>> Sebastian Elsner | RISE wrote:
>>> Unicode is tricky, it bites me every time. This works:
>>
>> It's not that hard.  There are two possibilities.  Either the setTool 
>> function does not accept Unicode strings, or the default tool tip 
>> font does not include those extended characters.
>>
>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> Actually, it doesn't.  There are no characters in his file beyond the 
>> base ASCII set, except for the one character in a comment, so the 
>> file coding is irrelevant.  If this worked for you, then his original 
>> code would have worked for you also. That would imply that your 
>> tooltip uses a different default font.  No one here has mentioned 
>> what operating systems they are using; that makes a difference.
>> -- 
>> Tim Roberts,timr at probo.com
>> Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.
>>
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