[PyQt] Problem with UTF-8 files and QScintilla

[Phil Thompson]

On Mon, 1 Dec 2008 11:23:38 +0100, "piotr maliński" <riklaunim at gmail.com>
wrote:
> I'm trying to use QScintilla with a file opened with QFile (and not
Python
> functions). With files that contain ascii only characters it works, but
for
> utf-8 files with non-ascii character it doesn't - the code snippet:
> ############################
> self.ui.editor.setUtf8(True)
> ...
> text =QtCore.QFile(url)
> text.open(QtCore.QIODevice.ReadWrite | QtCore.QIODevice.Text)

Have you tried it without the Text flag?

> txt = QtCore.QString(text.readAll())
> self.ui.editor.setText(txt)
> text.close()
> ############################
> 
> If I use:
> self.ui.editor.setText(txt.toUtf8())
> QSci will thow exception (TypeError: argument 1 of
QsciScintilla.setText()
> has an invalid type) as it wants QString and not QByteArray :) Is there a
> file encoding safe way to open a text file and pass it to QScintilla
> widget?
> I was using codecs and normal open with try/except - try another way/
> solution but it was bit uggly, and had problems with some files
encodings.

You could also try QsciScintilla.read().

Note, QScintilla has its own mailing list.

Phil