[PyKDE] QString to Python string conversion trouble

[Boudewijn Rempt]

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On Wednesday 24 October 2001 10:58, Phil Thompson wrote:
> >===== Original Message From Andreas Gerstlauer <gerstl at ics.uci.edu> =====
> >In general, out of curiosity (since you mentioned that two other people
> >convinced you to do it like that), what was the rationale for choosing the
> >escape encoding (as opposed to say an UTF-8 encoding)?
>
> Errm - a guess based on ignorance. You have to remember that Unicode is
> related to "foreign" languages and that I am English - so I am genetically
> incapable of understanding this properly ;)
>

I didn't try to convince Phil that escaped unicode was the way to go - just
that having exceptions thrown unless you saved the setdefaultencoding function
and used that to set the default encoding for your app was bad. 

Returning a Unicode object instead of a string object from a QString sounds fine
to me. I'm currently far too ill to really try hacking PyQt, though.

Anyway, I hope to have another week to bring the book up to date, since I
now spend rather a lot of text on unicode problems...
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Boudewijn Rempt | http://www.valdyas.org
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