John Ehresman wrote:
> Yann Leboulanger wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a string that a textview can't display. It contains invalid chars:
>>
>>>>> t = "Let's check this out.\x00"
>>>>> import gtk
>>>>> tv = gtk.TextView()
>>>>> b = tv.get_buffer()
>>>>> b.set_text(t)
>> __main__:1: GtkWarning: gtk_text_buffer_emit_insert: assertion
>> `g_utf8_validate (text, len, NULL)' failed
>>
>> but when I di that I have no problem:
>>>>> t.decode('utf-8')
>> u"Let's check this out.\x00"
>
> try:
> u = unicode(t, 'utf-8')
> except Exception:
> print 'not utf8'
> else:
> b.set_text(t)
>
> John
>
>>> import gtk
>>> tv = gtk.TextView()
>>> b = tv.get_buffer()
>>> t = "Let's check this out.\x00"
>>> u = unicode(t, 'utf-8')
>>> b.set_text(t)
__main__:1: GtkWarning: gtk_text_buffer_emit_insert: assertion
`g_utf8_validate (text, len, NULL)' failed
but b.set_text(u) works ... is it the way to go?
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