[PyKDE] Problem with German characters

[jblazi]

I have a QTextEdit widget and read the text:

text = str(texedit.text())

If the text contains an 'ö', that is o umlaut, I get the error message

UnicodeError: ASCII encoding error: ordinal not in range(128)

How can I solve this problem?

TIA,
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Janos Blazi