[PyQt] string encoding problem with pylupdate4

[Phil Thompson]

On Mon, 04 May 2009 16:47:18 +0200, Tóth Csaba <csaba.toth at davidnet.hu>
wrote:
> Phil Thompson írta:
>> On Sat, 02 May 2009 04:26:38 +0200, Tóth Csaba <csaba.toth at davidnet.hu>
>> wrote:
>>> hi,
>>>
>>> i have a problem with the pylupdate4.exe and the encoding it realises.
>>>
>>> If i have this code in a py file:
>>>
>>> #!/usr/bin/env python
>>> # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
>>> #
>>>
>>> a = QtCore.QT_TR_NOOP('Listás hívás összesítő')
>>> b = self.trUtf8('Listás hívás összesítő')
>>>
>>>
>>> than i run `pylupdate4.exe file.py -ts tr.ts`
>>>
>>> than if i open the translate.ts with Linguist i see these two strings
to
>>> translate (i understand the different context of these strings, the
>>> question is with the encodings of them, why differ?)
>>>
>>> Listás hívás összesítő
>>> Listás hívás összesítő
>>>
>>>
>>> attached you can find a .ts file i generated. I use
>>> PyQt-Py2.6-gpl-4.4.4-2 with Python 2.6.2.
>>>
>>> How can i solve this?
>> 
>> pylupdate4 ignores the coding: utf-8 and so doesn't know that the string
>> passed to QT_TR_NOOP() is utf8.
>> 
>> I've added support for QT_TR_NOOP_UTF8() which you should use instead.
> 
> Thanks :)
> 
> Is this exists in the current available version, or just will be in the
> next release?

Next release - there will be a beta installer later today.

> Isn't better if you add support for the python codec definition into
> pylupdate4?

Yes, but that will take longer - patches welcome.

Phil