[Eric] Unicode issue

[jonnobleuk at gmail.com]

Hi,

I'm developing an app that uses Unicode in QTreeWidgetItems. When I run my app 
via Eric's "Run Project" feature I can use the unicode to write and read the 
WTreeWidgetItem's with no issue. 

However, when I run my app natively I can no longer read the unicode and I am 
shown errors like this

UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xf6' in position 
2: ordinal not in range(128)

What is Eric doing to prevent this?

Cheers

Jon