[PyQt] string encoding problem with pylupdate4

[Tóth Csaba]

Phil Thompson írta:
> 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.

great :)
because of the changes, i wont use this as whole, but maybe just the
pylupdate4.


>> Isn't better if you add support for the python codec definition into
>> pylupdate4?
> 
> Yes, but that will take longer - patches welcome.

Hmm, i looked, sadly its not python.. its c++..
Dont you prefer if someone wrote a pythonic version instead of patching
this?

thanks,
tsabi