[PyQt] Unicode characters in QTreeView

[Giovanni Bajo]

On Wed, 2009-09-09 at 00:50 -0700, Doogster wrote:
> Japanese characters aren't displaying properly in my QTreeView.
> 
> What should I do?
> 
> Here's a screenshot (the bottom line should be in Japanese).
> http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v298/dugan-c/unicode-error.jpg
> 
> This is an MPD client and the rows are id3 tags. The line in question
> does display properly in Amarok and (significantly, since it uses the
> same python-mpd library I'm using) in Sonata. That means there's
> nothing wrong with either the data or the library I'm using to read
> it; the fault is with my GUI code.

... which you didn't show us :)

What kind of datatype does python-mpd extract? Is it 8-bit str or
unicode? If it's 8-bit str, you need to decode it properly before
passing it to Qt.
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Giovanni Bajo
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