[PyKDE] Problem with German characters

[Detlev Offenbach]

Am Dienstag, 15. Oktober 2002 19:37 schrieb 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,

Use unicode instead of str and it works ok.

text = unicode(textedit.text())

Detlev
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