Converted ui file throws UnicodeEncodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't encode characters in position 1047-1048: surrogates not allowed

[Phil Thompson]

On 04/03/2024 02:30, lizhao0512 at 126.com wrote:
> After converting the ConfigWindow.ui to Ui_ConfigWindow.py, and then
> run ConfigWindow-test.py with it, I got the following error. Test
> files are attached.
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File
> "F:\BaiduNetdiskDownload\SoftwareProject\LYYDownloader-dev\ConfigWindow.py",
> line 64, in <module>
>     ui = ConfigWindow()
>   File
> "F:\BaiduNetdiskDownload\SoftwareProject\LYYDownloader-dev\ConfigWindow.py",
> line 27, in __init__
>     self.setupUi(self)
>   File
> "F:\BaiduNetdiskDownload\SoftwareProject\LYYDownloader-dev\Ui_ConfigWindow.py",
> line 179, in setupUi
>     self.retranslateUi(Dialog)
>   File
> "F:\BaiduNetdiskDownload\SoftwareProject\LYYDownloader-dev\Ui_ConfigWindow.py",
> line 211, in retranslateUi
>     self.label.setText(QCoreApplication.translate("Dialog", "<!DOCTYPE
> HTML PUBLIC \"-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN\"
> \"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/strict.dtd\">\n"
> UnicodeEncodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't encode characters in position
> 1047-1048: surrogates not allowed

It looks like you have used Qt's uic to generate the .py file. As far as 
I know uic doesn't support PyQt. Did you edit the .py file to use PyQt?

Whatever - if you use pyuic6 then it works as expected - and the 
generated code is readable.

Phil