[PyQt] Using Unicode

[Raoul Snyman]

Hi Gabriel,

On Wed, 17 Jun 2009 10:31:46 +0200, Gabriel Hahmann wrote:
> Are you saying something like this:
> 
> QtGui.QPushButton(self.tr(u'&Next >'))
> 
> Is that what you mean? Putting an "u" before each string? I´m looking
> some information about unicode and python and in a few pages I saw
> that is necessary to do something to decode and show this on screen,
> is that true?

That's correct. When you use the "print" command in Python, you need to
decode it back to ascii, but for things like Qt4, it's better to use
Unicode. Then your strings can contain umlauts and other non-english
characters.

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