[PyQt] UTF-8 files handling in PyQT4

[Roberto Alsina]

On Sat 05 May 2007 12:23:49 piotr maliński wrote:
> That doesn't help. It won't even open a file:
>
> UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc4 in position
> 14: ordinal not in range(128)
>
> It wants to use ASCII "codec". I've noticed that for example
> QTextStream has "setCodec" but there isn't anything about encoding for
> QFile or textEdit.

Sorry, I haven't followed the thread, but... maybe you need to open the file 
using the codecs module instead of plain open()?

codecs.open(fname,'r','utf-8').read()

I know this works :-)

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