[PyQt] Inconsistent pylupdate5 behaviour on UTF8 data

[Phil Thompson]

On 18/02/2020 10:57, Giuseppe Corbelli wrote:
> On 2/18/20 11:37 AM, Giuseppe Corbelli wrote:
>> Turns out that there's something in XML re-parsing (or maybe something 
>> else that escapes me). Same dataset as my previous email applies.
>> 
>> This is what happens if you run pylupdate (5.14.1) two times in a row 
>> in a windows 10 box:
>> 
>> (venv_latest) C:\devel\Dynamometer\Supervisor\norms>pylupdate5 
>> -verbose test.pro
>> Updating 'locale/it_IT.ts'...
>>      Found 2 source texts (2 new and 0 already existing)
>> 
>> (venv_latest) C:\devel\Dynamometer\Supervisor\norms>pylupdate5 
>> -verbose test.pro
>> Updating 'locale/it_IT.ts'...
>>      Found 2 source texts (1 new and 1 already existing)
>>      Kept 0 obsolete translations
>>      Removed 1 obsolete untranslated entry
>> 
>> The second time the UTF8 entry gets screwed up.
>> Everything is fine on Linux, same pylupdate version.
>> 
>> Digging some more...
> 
> Setting CODECFORTR=UTF-8 in .pro works around the issue.
> It sets the 'encoding' attribute on '<message>' entities, and
> non-ascii chars are saved as UTF8 instead of XML entities.
> 
> I will stop here as it solves my problem. Phil, if you have no
> strategic interest in pursuing this stuff maybe this is worth
> mentioning in the documentation.

What if you use trUtf8() instead if tr()?

Phil